Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISCriticism is not construction, it is observation.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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While we read history we make history.
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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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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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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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Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.
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The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
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A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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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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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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Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
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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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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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