The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISThe 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.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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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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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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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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A 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.
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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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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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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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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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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 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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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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