It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISAnger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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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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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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True invective requires great imagination.
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While we read history we make history.
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Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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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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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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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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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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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 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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Happiness is speechless.
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