Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISIn 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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A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it.
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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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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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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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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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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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True invective requires great imagination.
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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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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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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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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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