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A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it.

George William Curtis

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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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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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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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Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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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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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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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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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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