A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISIt is not observed in history that families improve with time.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
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Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.
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Happiness is speechless.
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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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I walked beside the evening sea And dreamed a dream that could not be; The waves that plunged along the shore Said only: “Dreamer, dream no more!”
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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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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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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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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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Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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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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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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