Good taste consists first upon fitness.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISThe world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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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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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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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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True invective requires great imagination.
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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
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While we read history we make history.
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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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For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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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 journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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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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