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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Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS
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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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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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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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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A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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I walked beside the evening sea And dreamed a dream that could not be; The waves that plunged along the shore Said only: “Dreamer, dream no more!”
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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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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 observed in history that families improve with time.
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The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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True invective requires great imagination.
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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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