A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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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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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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
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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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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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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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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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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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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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