Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISGood taste consists first upon fitness.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer.
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Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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True invective requires great imagination.
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It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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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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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.
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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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The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
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