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George William Curtis
American
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The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
George William Curtis,
American
Author
#New year
#Snow
The test of civilization is its estimate of women.
George William Curtis,
American
Author
#Civilization
#Women
The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
George William Curtis,
American
Author
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,
American
Author
#Men
#Women
#Mistake
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.
George William Curtis,
American
Author
#Time
#Prose
#Poetry
#Conversation
#Memory
#Romance
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,
American
Author
#Fame
#Intelligence
#Mankind
#Thoughts
#Deeds
#Reputation
#Approval
Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
George William Curtis,
American
Author
#Liberty
#Sorrow
Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.
George William Curtis,
American
Author
#Men
#Woman
#Nature
Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
George William Curtis,
American
Author
#Men
#Anger
#Luxury
#Income
It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
George William Curtis,
American
Author
#Time
#History
Imagination is as good as many voyages - and how much cheaper!
George William Curtis,
American
Author
#Imagination
Happiness lies first of all in health.
George William Curtis,
American
Author
#First
#Lies
#Happiness
#Health
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.
George William Curtis,
American
Author
#History
#Crisis
Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
George William Curtis,
American
Author
#Books
#Wisdom
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,
American
Author
#Country
#Man
#Mountains
#Loyalty
#Land
#Patriotism
#Rivers
While we read history we make history.
George William Curtis,
American
Author
#History
It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
George William Curtis,
American
Author