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George William Curtis
Age: 68 †
Born: 1824
Born: February 24
Died: 1892
Died: August 31
Journalist
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New York City
New York
George W. Curtis
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Criticism

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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.
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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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There is very little moral mixture in the 'Antislavery' feeling of this country. A great deal is abstract philanthropy part is hatred of slaveholders a great part is jealousy for white labor, very little is consciousness of wrong done and the wish to right it.
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In the journey of the year, the autumn is Venice, spring is Naples, certainly, and the majestic maturity of summer is Rome.
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For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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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.
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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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Imagination is as good as many voyages - and how much cheaper.
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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 develop as an equal human being.
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Happiness is speechless.
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Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.
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True invective requires great imagination.
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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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Virtue does not truly reward her votary if she leaves him sad and half doubtful whether it would not have been better to serve vice.
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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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Progress begins with the minority. It is completed by persuading the majority, by showing the reason and the of the step forward, and that is accomplished by appealing to the intelligence of the majority.
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Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.
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