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.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISTrue invective requires great imagination.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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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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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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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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The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
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The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.
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Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
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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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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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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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Happiness is speechless.
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Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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