Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISIt is not observed in history that families improve with time.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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While we read history we make history.
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I walked beside the evening sea And dreamed a dream that could not be; The waves that plunged along the shore Said only: “Dreamer, dream no more!”
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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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True invective requires great imagination.
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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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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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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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It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it.
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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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A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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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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