It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISOur common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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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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Happiness is speechless.
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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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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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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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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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The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
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Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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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.
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For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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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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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
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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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