The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISThe Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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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.
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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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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.
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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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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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The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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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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Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
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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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It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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