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The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.

George William Curtis

A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it.
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Friendship Love River
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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Hero History Ourselves Poet Truth
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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Conquer Death Greatness History Human
It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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Assurance Prosperity Skill
Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS

Anand Thakur
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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Fame Intelligence Kind Man Reputation
Happiness is speechless.
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Happiness Talk
The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS

Anand Thakur
The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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Distance Pride Ratio
Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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Hands Right Strategy
The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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Civilization Estimate Test Woman
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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Beginning Intelligence Majority Minority Progress
Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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Common Liberty Sorrow
The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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Fragrance Hands Rose Stay
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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Journey Maturity Season Summer
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.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS

Feeling Growth Mistake Puberty Woman Yourself