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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.

George William Curtis

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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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For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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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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It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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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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The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
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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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A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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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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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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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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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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While we read history we make history.
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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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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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Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
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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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