Good taste consists first upon fitness.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISA 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.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
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Happiness is speechless.
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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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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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True invective requires great imagination.
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Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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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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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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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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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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While we read history we make history.
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