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.
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 world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
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Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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Happiness is speechless.
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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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While we read history we make history.
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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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