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 CURTISTrue invective requires great imagination.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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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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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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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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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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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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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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Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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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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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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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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While we read history we make history.
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