For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISCriticism is not construction, it is observation.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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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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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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Happiness is speechless.
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The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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A man’s country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.
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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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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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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer.
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The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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