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 CURTISWhile we read history we make history.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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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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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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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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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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While we read history we make history.
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A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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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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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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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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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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The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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