The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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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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True invective requires great imagination.
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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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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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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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Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.
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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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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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