A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISGood taste consists first upon fitness.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
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Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.
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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.
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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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Heroes in history seem to us poetic because they are there. But if we should tell the simple truth of some of our neighbors, it would sound like poetry.
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Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.
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For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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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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