The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISThe fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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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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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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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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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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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.
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Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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In the journey of the year, the autumn is Venice, spring is Naples, certainly, and the majestic maturity of summer is Rome.
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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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While we read history we make history.
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Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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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.
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