It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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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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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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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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The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.
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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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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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A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it.
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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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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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