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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.

George William Curtis

Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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Construction Criticism Observation
The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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Fragrance Hands Rose Stay
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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Fame Intelligence Kind Man Reputation
True invective requires great imagination.
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Greatness Imagination True
Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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Age Feeling One Liner Youth
The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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Distance Pride Ratio
Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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Anand Thakur
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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Beginning Intelligence Majority Minority Progress
Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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Fit Goodness Taste
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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Journey Maturity Season Summer
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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Dreams Myself Sea Walk Wave
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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Feeling Growth Mistake Puberty Woman Yourself
Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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Cheap Goodness Imagination
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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Conversation Escape Ghost Memories Romance Time Touch
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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Hero History Ourselves Poet Truth
Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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Common Liberty Sorrow