Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISImagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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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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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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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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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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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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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 test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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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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While we read history we make history.
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For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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