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While we read history we make history.

George William Curtis

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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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Friendship Love River
A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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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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Hero History Ourselves Poet Truth
Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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Hands Right Strategy
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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Better Doubt Reward Serve Virtue
True invective requires great imagination.
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Greatness Imagination True
Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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Fit Goodness Taste
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
Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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Common Liberty Sorrow
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
The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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Distance Pride Ratio
For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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Man Nature Win Woman
Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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Age Feeling One Liner Youth
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
The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
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Beginning Promise Storm Vow White
Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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Book Burn Lamp Wisdom

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