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Category: George William Curtis

3 December 2020 George William Curtis

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.

3 December 2020 George William Curtis

Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.

3 December 2020 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.

3 December 2020 George William Curtis

Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper!

3 December 2020 George William Curtis

Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.

3 December 2020 George William Curtis

Happiness lies first of all in health.

3 December 2020 George William Curtis

Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.

3 December 2020 George William Curtis

The test of civilization is its estimate of women.

3 December 2020 George William Curtis

Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.

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