In the journey of the year, the autumn is Venice, spring is Naples, certainly, and the majestic maturity of summer is Rome.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISIt is not observed in history that families improve with time.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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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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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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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.
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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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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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Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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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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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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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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While we read history we make history.
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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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