A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISGood taste consists first upon fitness.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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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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Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.
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Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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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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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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Happiness is speechless.
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Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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True invective requires great imagination.
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Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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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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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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