Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISHeroes 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.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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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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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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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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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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It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
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Happiness is speechless.
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