Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISHappiness is speechless.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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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 journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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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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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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A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it.
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For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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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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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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I walked beside the evening sea And dreamed a dream that could not be; The waves that plunged along the shore Said only: “Dreamer, dream no more!”
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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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