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Famous Quotes
Quotes by George William Curtis
- 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.
- Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
- Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
- Happiness lies first of all in health.
- Imagination is as good as many voyages - and how much cheaper!
- Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.
- Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.
- 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.
- 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.
- The test of civilization is its estimate of women.
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