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.

Dwight: Brook Farm and Concord (1898) (Project Gutenberg text)


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Curtis High School St George Staten Island is named for him. A high school not far from his home is named for him. (1911).

George William Curtis (February 24 1824 – August 31 1892) was an American writer and public speaker born in Providence Rhode Island of old New England stock.