Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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I walked beside the evening sea And dreamed a dream that could not be; The waves that plunged along the shore Said only: “Dreamer, dream no more!”
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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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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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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 world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
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A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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While we read history we make history.
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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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