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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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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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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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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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Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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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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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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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 the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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