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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.

George William Curtis

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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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The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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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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Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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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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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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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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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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