Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISThe test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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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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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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Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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Happiness is speechless.
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It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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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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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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While we read history we make history.
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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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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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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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