The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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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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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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Progress begins with the minority. It is completed by persuading the majority, by showing the reason and the of the step forward, and that is accomplished by appealing to the intelligence of the majority.
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Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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Happiness is speechless.
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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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While we read history we make history.
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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.
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The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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