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.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISReputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.
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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The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.
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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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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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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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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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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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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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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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While we read history we make history.
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