Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISA tree which has lost its head will never recover it again, and will survive only as a monument of the ignorance and folly of its Tormentor.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
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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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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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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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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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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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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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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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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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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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