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.
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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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Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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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 the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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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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Happiness is speechless.
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The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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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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A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it.
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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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True invective requires great imagination.
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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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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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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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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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