In the journey of the year, the autumn is Venice, spring is Naples, certainly, and the majestic maturity of summer is Rome.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISGeorge William Curtis Quotes
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Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.
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A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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Virtue does not truly reward her votary if she leaves him sad and half doubtful whether it would not have been better to serve vice.
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While we read history we make history.
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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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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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For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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