Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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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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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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Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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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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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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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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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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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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