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.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISPatriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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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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Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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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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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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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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While we read history we make history.
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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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A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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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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Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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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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