A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISPrussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.
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Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
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Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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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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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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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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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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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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While we read history we make history.
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The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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