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.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISVirtue does not truly reward her votary if she leaves him sad and half doubtful whether it would not have been better to serve vice.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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I walked beside the evening sea And dreamed a dream that could not be; The waves that plunged along the shore Said only: “Dreamer, dream no more!”
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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
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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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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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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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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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Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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True invective requires great imagination.
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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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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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