For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISThe test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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True invective requires great imagination.
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The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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In the journey of the year, the autumn is Venice, spring is Naples, certainly, and the majestic maturity of summer is Rome.
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A man’s country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.
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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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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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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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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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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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Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.
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