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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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.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS
Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS
The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS
In the journey of the year, the autumn is Venice, spring is Naples, certainly, and the majestic maturity of summer is Rome.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS
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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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
A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS
It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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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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For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
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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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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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