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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.

George William Curtis

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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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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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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
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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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Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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While we read history we make history.
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It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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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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