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.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISStratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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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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For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
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The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
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True invective requires great imagination.
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Happiness is speechless.
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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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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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Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.
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A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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