The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISAge is a matter of feeling, not of years.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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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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Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.
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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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I walked beside the evening sea And dreamed a dream that could not be; The waves that plunged along the shore Said only: “Dreamer, dream no more!”
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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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A man’s country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.
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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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The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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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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