A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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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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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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A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it.
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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
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The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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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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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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