In the journey of the year, the autumn is Venice, spring is Naples, certainly, and the majestic maturity of summer is Rome.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISIt is not observed in history that families improve with time.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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Happiness is speechless.
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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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While we read history we make history.
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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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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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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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Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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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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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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