The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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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Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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True invective requires great imagination.
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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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Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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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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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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Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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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 observed in history that families improve with time.
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For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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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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