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 CURTISFor nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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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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For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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While we read history we make history.
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Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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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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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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A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it.
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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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Happiness is speechless.
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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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True invective requires great imagination.
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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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