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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.

George William Curtis

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The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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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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Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.
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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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It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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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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Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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