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Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.

George William Curtis

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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Conquer Death Greatness History Human
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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Head Ignorance Lost Monument Survive Tree
The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
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Anand Thakur
Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS

Conquer Greatness Intelligence People World
Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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Common Liberty Sorrow
Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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Fit Goodness Taste
Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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Hands Right Strategy
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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Journey Maturity Season Summer
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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Hero History Ourselves Poet Truth
Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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Greatness Opportunity Politics Social
It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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Assurance Prosperity Skill
For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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Man Nature Win Woman
A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it.
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Friendship Love River
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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Feeling Growth Mistake Puberty Woman Yourself
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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Fame Intelligence Kind Man Reputation
Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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Cheap Goodness Imagination