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.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISOur great social and political advantage is opportunity.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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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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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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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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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
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Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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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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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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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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True invective requires great imagination.
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Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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