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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.

George William Curtis

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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Head Ignorance Lost Monument Survive Tree
Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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Believe Book Entertainment Spiritual World
The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
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Anand Thakur
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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Journey Maturity Season Summer
Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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Construction Criticism Observation
The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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Fragrance Hands Rose Stay
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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Conquer Death Greatness History Human
Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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Condition National Patriot
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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Hero History Ourselves Poet Truth
Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.
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Conquer Greatness Intelligence People World
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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Feeling Growth Mistake Puberty Woman Yourself
Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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Fit Goodness Taste
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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Country Loyalty Man Mountain Principle
It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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Family History Observation Time
Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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Anand Thakur
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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Fame Intelligence Kind Man Reputation

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