Progress begins with the minority. It is completed by persuading the majority, by showing the reason and the of the step forward, and that is accomplished by appealing to the intelligence of the majority.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISGood taste consists first upon fitness.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they’ve reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you’re just horny. It doesn’t mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.
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For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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A tree which has lost its head will never recover it again, and will survive only as a monument of the ignorance and folly of its Tormentor.
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The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
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A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it.
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Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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