For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISA 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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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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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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Heroes in history seem to us poetic because they are there. But if we should tell the simple truth of some of our neighbors, it would sound like poetry.
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Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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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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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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It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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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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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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Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
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While we read history we make history.
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Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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