Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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.
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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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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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While we read history we make history.
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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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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
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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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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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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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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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The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
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