Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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While we read history we make history.
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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
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Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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Happiness is speechless.
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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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The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
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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 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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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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