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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For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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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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Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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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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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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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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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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Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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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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