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Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer.

George William Curtis

Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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Book Burn Lamp Wisdom
I walked beside the evening sea And dreamed a dream that could not be; The waves that plunged along the shore Said only: “Dreamer, dream no more!”
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Dreams Myself Sea Walk Wave
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.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS

Feeling Growth Mistake Puberty Woman Yourself
True invective requires great imagination.
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Greatness Imagination True
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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Better Doubt Reward Serve Virtue
Progress begins with the minority. It is completed by persuading the majority, by showing the reason and the of the step forward, and that is accomplished by appealing to the intelligence of the majority.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS

Beginning Intelligence Majority Minority Progress
Heroes 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.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS

Hero History Ourselves Poet Truth
The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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Civilization Estimate Test Woman
The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
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Anand Thakur
Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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Anand Thakur
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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Country Loyalty Man Mountain Principle
The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
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Beginning Promise Storm Vow White
It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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Assurance Prosperity Skill
Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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Common Liberty Sorrow
Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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Fit Goodness Taste
Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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Angry Luxury Man Money