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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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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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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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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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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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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A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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Happiness is speechless.
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Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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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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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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