Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISTrue invective requires great imagination.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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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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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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A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it.
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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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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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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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Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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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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Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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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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The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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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 observed in history that families improve with time.
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