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 CURTISCriticism is not construction, it is observation.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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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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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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Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.
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Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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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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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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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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Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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True invective requires great imagination.
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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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Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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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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