Best Quotes by George William Curtis (Top 10)
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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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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.
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Happiness lies first of all in health.
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The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
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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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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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While we read history we make history.
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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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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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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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More George William Curtis Quotes
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The test of civilization is its estimate of women.
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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. Among savages she is a slave. In the dark ages of Christianity she is a toy and a sentimental goddess. With increasing moral light, and greater liberty, and more universal justice, she begins to develop as an equal human being.
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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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