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George, we note you wrote wise and clever sayings. Here’s hoping you were recognized for your talent in your time.

8 Quotes From George William Curtis
1824-1892

  • Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.

  • He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

  • Imagination is as good as many voyages - and how much cheaper!

  • It is not observed in history that families improve with time.

  • Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.

  • 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.

  • The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.

  • The test of civilization is its estimate of women.

counter easy hit

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