Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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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A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it.
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The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
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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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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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True invective requires great imagination.
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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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While we read history we make history.
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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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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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