Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISHappiness lies, first of all, in health.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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Happiness is speechless.
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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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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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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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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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In the journey of the year, the autumn is Venice, spring is Naples, certainly, and the majestic maturity of summer is Rome.
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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
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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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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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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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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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