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True invective requires great imagination.

George William Curtis

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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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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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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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Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer.
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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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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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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 fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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Virtue does not truly reward her votary if she leaves him sad and half doubtful whether it would not have been better to serve vice.
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Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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