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A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.

George William Curtis

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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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Head Ignorance Lost Monument Survive Tree
Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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Common Liberty Sorrow
The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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Distance Pride Ratio
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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Journey Maturity Season Summer
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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Hero History Ourselves Poet Truth
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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Better Doubt Reward Serve Virtue
It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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Assurance Prosperity Skill
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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Fame Intelligence Kind Man Reputation
True invective requires great imagination.
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Greatness Imagination True
It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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Family History Observation Time
The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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Fragrance Hands Rose Stay
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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Country Loyalty Man Mountain Principle
Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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Construction Criticism Observation
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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Conversation Escape Ghost Memories Romance Time Touch
Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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Fit Goodness Taste
For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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Man Nature Win Woman
Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.
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Conquer Greatness Intelligence People World
While we read history we make history.
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History One Liner Reading
Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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Book Burn Lamp Wisdom
Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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Condition National Patriot
A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it.
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Friendship Love River
Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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Believe Book Entertainment Spiritual World
Happiness is speechless.
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Happiness Talk
The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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Civilization Estimate Test Woman
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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Feeling Growth Mistake Puberty Woman Yourself
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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Beginning Intelligence Majority Minority Progress
Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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Cheap Goodness Imagination

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