Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISBooks of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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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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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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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.
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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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Happiness is speechless.
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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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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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The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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