While we read history we make history.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISA river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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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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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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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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It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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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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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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Happiness is speechless.
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True invective requires great imagination.
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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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