Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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.
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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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While we read history we make history.
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A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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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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Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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True invective requires great imagination.
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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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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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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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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
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