True invective requires great imagination.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISIt is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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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 river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it.
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Happiness is speechless.
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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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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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Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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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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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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The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
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Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.
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Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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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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