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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.

George William Curtis

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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 new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
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The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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True invective requires great imagination.
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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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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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It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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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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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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