The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISHappiness is speechless.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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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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Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
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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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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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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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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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While we read history we make history.
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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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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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Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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True invective requires great imagination.
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