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.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISStratagem is the right hand of cunning.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
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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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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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Progress begins with the minority. It is completed by persuading the majority, by showing the reason and the of the step forward, and that is accomplished by appealing to the intelligence of the majority.
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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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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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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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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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A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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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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