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Letter "G" » George William Curtis Quotes
«Happiness lies, first of all, in health.»
«It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.»
Author: George William Curtis
| Keywords:
assures, prosperous, sailing, ship, skillful, voyage, voyaging
«Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.»
«It is not observed in history that families improve with time.»
«While we read history we make history.»
«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.»
Author: George William Curtis
| About:
Country,
Loyalty,
Patriotism,
Principles
| Keywords:
area, land area, loyalty, rivers, woods
«The sure foundations of the state are laid in knowledge, not in ignorance; and every sneer at education, at culture, at book learning, which is the recorded wisdom of the experience of mankind, is the demagogue's sneer at intelligent liberty, inviting national degeneracy and ruin.»
Author: George William Curtis
| Keywords:
degeneracy, demagogue, demagogues, foundations, recorded, sneer, sneering, sneers
«The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. Among savages she is a slave. In the dark ages of Christianity she is a toy and a sentimental goddess. With increasing moral light, and greater liberty, and more universal justice, she begins to deve»
Author: George William Curtis
| About:
Christianity,
Civilization,
Women
| Keywords:
dark ages, estimate, goddess, Great Goddess, increasing, savages, sentimental, toy
«Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly.»
Author: George William Curtis
| Keywords:
attend, bidden, call back, cruelly, delinquent, delinquents, handmaid, handmaids, mistress, precede, punishes, take control, The Front
«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»
Author: George William Curtis
| About:
Men,
Men and Women,
Mistakes
| Keywords:
fourteen, horny, of a sudden, puberty, thirteen, twenty one
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