A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISOur common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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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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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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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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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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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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Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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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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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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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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Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
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Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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