Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISRomance 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.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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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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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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It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
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Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
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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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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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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 Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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True invective requires great imagination.
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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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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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