It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISAnger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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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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Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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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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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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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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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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Happiness is speechless.
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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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For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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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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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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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 journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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