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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.

George William Curtis

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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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Hero History Ourselves Poet Truth
It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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Family History Observation Time
A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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Echo Journal
Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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Angry Luxury Man Money
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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Country Loyalty Man Mountain Principle
For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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Man Nature Win Woman
Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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Book Burn Lamp Wisdom
Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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Cheap Goodness Imagination
Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
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Dreams Hard Time Inspirational True. Survive
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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Conversation Escape Ghost Memories Romance Time Touch
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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Better Doubt Reward Serve Virtue
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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Feeling Growth Mistake Puberty Woman Yourself
The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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Civilization Estimate Test Woman
A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it.
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Friendship Love River
True invective requires great imagination.
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Greatness Imagination True
Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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Construction Criticism Observation

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