American - Author | February 24, 1824 - August 31, 1892
It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
George William Curtis
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The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
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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.
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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.
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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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Imagination is as good as many voyages - and how much cheaper!
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Happiness lies first of all in health.
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It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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While we read history we make history.
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Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.
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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.
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The test of civilization is its estimate of women.
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