Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer.
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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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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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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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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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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Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
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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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The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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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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True invective requires great imagination.
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