It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS
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It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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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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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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True invective requires great imagination.
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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 journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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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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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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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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