For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISGood taste consists first upon fitness.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
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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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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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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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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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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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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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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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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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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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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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