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The test of civilization is its estimate of women.
Curtis, George William
Civilization

While we read history we make history.
Curtis, George William
History and Historians

Happiness lies first of all in health.
Curtis, George William
Happiness

Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.
Curtis, George William
Men and Women

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.
Curtis, George William
Patriotism

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.
Curtis, George William
Romance and Romanticism

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.
Curtis, George William
Anger

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
Curtis, George William
Age and Aging