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George William Curtis (February 24, 1824 - August 31, 1892) was an American writer and public speaker..

"Age is a matter of feeling, not of years."

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"Happiness lies first of all in health."

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"While we read history we make history."

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

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"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."

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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 test of civilization is its estimate of women."

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