Good taste consists first upon fitness.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISIt is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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While we read history we make history.
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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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Happiness is speechless.
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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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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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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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Virtue does not truly reward her votary if she leaves him sad and half doubtful whether it would not have been better to serve vice.
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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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True invective requires great imagination.
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A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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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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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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