Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISTrue invective requires great imagination.
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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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While we read history we make history.
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True invective requires great imagination.
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Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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Happiness is speechless.
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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 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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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
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Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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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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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
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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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