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.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISStratagem is the right hand of cunning.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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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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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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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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True invective requires great imagination.
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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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Happiness is speechless.
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Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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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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Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.
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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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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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The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
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