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.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISHappiness is speechless.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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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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It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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While we read history we make history.
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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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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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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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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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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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True invective requires great imagination.
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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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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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