Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISImagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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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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Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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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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For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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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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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
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A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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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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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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Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
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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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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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Happiness is speechless.
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