Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISOur 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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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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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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It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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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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Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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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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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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True invective requires great imagination.
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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer.
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