Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.
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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Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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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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Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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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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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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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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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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True invective requires great imagination.
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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
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While we read history we make history.
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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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Happiness is speechless.
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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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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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The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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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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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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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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