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Good taste consists first upon fitness.

George William Curtis

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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Conversation Escape Ghost Memories Romance Time Touch
True invective requires great imagination.
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Greatness Imagination True
The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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Fragrance Hands Rose Stay
Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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Anand Thakur
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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Better Doubt Reward Serve Virtue
The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
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Anand Thakur
For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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Man Nature Win Woman
Heroes in history seem to us poetic because they are there. But if we should tell the simple truth of some of our neighbors, it would sound like poetry.
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Hero History Ourselves Poet Truth
Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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Condition National Patriot
Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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Book Burn Lamp Wisdom
Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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Construction Criticism Observation
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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Country Loyalty Man Mountain Principle
Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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Hands Right Strategy
A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it.
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Friendship Love River
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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Dreams Myself Sea Walk Wave
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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Feeling Growth Mistake Puberty Woman Yourself

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