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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.

George William Curtis

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For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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True invective requires great imagination.
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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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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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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
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While we read history we make history.
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