Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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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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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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For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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True invective requires great imagination.
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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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While we read history we make history.
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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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Happiness is speechless.
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