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.
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.
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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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The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
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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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The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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Progress 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.
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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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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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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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