The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISIt is not observed in history that families improve with time.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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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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A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it.
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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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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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It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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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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Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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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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For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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Happiness is speechless.
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