True invective requires great imagination.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISCriticism is not construction, it is observation.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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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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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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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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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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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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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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Heroes in history seem to us poetic because they are there. But if we should tell the simple truth of some of our neighbors, it would sound like poetry.
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Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
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The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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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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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 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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While we read history we make history.
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