Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISIn the journey of the year, the autumn is Venice, spring is Naples, certainly, and the majestic maturity of summer is Rome.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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While we read history we make history.
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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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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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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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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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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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Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.
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Heroes in history seem to us poetic because they are there. But if we should tell the simple truth of some of our neighbors, it would sound like poetry.
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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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True invective requires great imagination.
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Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.
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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
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The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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