Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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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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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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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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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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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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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Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
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A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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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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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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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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The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
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Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer.
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