Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISHappiness is speechless.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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While we read history we make history.
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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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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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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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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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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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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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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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