While we read history we make history.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISPrussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.
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It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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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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A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it.
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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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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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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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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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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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Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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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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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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