Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISGood taste consists first upon fitness.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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While we read history we make history.
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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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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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True invective requires great imagination.
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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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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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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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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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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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Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.
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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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