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~ George William Curtis Quote
Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
~ George William Curtis Quote
The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
~ George William Curtis Quote
While we read history we make history.
~ George William Curtis Quote
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
~ George William Curtis Quote
It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
~ George William Curtis Quote
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.
~ George William Curtis Quote
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 Quote
It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
~ George William Curtis Quote
Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
~ George William Curtis Quote
Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of a certain income can indulge.
~ George William Curtis Quote