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.
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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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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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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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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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Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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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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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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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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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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Happiness is speechless.
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While we read history we make history.
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