George William Curtis

The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows. ↗

— George William Curtis

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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. ↗

— George William Curtis

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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose. ↗

— George William Curtis

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The test of civilization is its estimate of women. ↗

— George William Curtis

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

— George William Curtis

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

— George William Curtis

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Nature makes woman to be won and men to win. ↗

— George William Curtis

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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. ↗

— George William Curtis

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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

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Happiness lies first of all in health. ↗

— George William Curtis

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