Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
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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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A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it.
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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.
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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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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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For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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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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