Happiness is speechless.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISProgress 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.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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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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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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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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A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it.
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True invective requires great imagination.
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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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Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.
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While we read history we make history.
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Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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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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