It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISIt is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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Happiness is speechless.
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The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
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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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While we read history we make history.
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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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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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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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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 fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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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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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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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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