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George William Curtis [1824-1892] American

Rank: 102
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George William Curtis was an American writer and public speaker, born in Providence, Rhode Island, of New Englander ancestry. A Republican, he spoke in favor of African American equality and civil rights.

Women, Anger, Happiness, Health, Imagination, Intelligence, Memorial Day, Nature, Patriotism, Poetry, Romantic, Time, Wisdom

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Happiness lies first of all in health.	Happiness, Health	101
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.	Memorial Day, Patriotism	102
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.	Poetry, Romantic, Time	103
It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.		104
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.	Women	105
Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.	Nature, Women	106
The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.		107
Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.	Anger	108
The test of civilization is its estimate of women.	Women	109
Imagination is as good as many voyages - and how much cheaper!	Imagination	110
Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.	Intelligence	111
Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.	Wisdom	112
It is not observed in history that families improve with time.		113
While we read history we make history.		114
Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.		115
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.		116

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