George William Curtis

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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.

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

While we read history we make history.

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.

Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.

Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.

It is not observed in history that families improve with time.

Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.

Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.

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.

It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.

Happiness lies first of all in health.

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

While we read history we make history.

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

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.

It is not observed in history that families improve with time.

The test of civilization is its estimate of women.

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.

Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.

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