The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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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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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True invective requires great imagination.
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The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
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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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In the journey of the year, the autumn is Venice, spring is Naples, certainly, and the majestic maturity of summer is Rome.
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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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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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A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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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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