Happiness is speechless.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISAge is a matter of feeling, not of years.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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True invective requires great imagination.
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Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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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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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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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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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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A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it.
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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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While we read history we make history.
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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
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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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