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.
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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While we read history we make history.
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It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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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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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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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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Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
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The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
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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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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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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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Happiness is speechless.
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