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 CURTISPrussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.
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True invective requires great imagination.
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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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While we read history we make history.
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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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For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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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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Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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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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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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