It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISThe test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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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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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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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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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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While we read history we make history.
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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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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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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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