George William Curtis Quotes
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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 new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.