Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISPrussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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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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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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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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Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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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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For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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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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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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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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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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