The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
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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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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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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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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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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True invective requires great imagination.
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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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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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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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