While we read history we make history.
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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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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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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The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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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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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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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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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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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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