Good taste consists first upon fitness.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISReputation 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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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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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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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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A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it.
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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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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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Happiness is speechless.
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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
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Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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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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A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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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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