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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

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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Age Feeling One Liner Youth
The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS

Fragrance Hands Rose Stay
Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS

Book Burn Lamp Wisdom
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.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS

Better Doubt Reward Serve Virtue
Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS

Greatness Opportunity Politics Social
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.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS

Head Ignorance Lost Monument Survive Tree
Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS

Angry Luxury Man Money
Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS

Fame Intelligence Kind Man Reputation
The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS

Anand Thakur
A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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Echo Journal
A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS

Friendship Love River
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.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS

Hero History Ourselves Poet Truth
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.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS

Feeling Growth Mistake Puberty Woman Yourself
Good taste consists first upon fitness.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS

Fit Goodness Taste
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
It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS

Family History Observation Time