Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it

“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.”

— George William Curtis

Author: George William Curtis
Category: romantic
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Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it

“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.”

— George William Curtis

Author: George William Curtis
Category: poetry
Tags: poetry, George William Curtis

 

Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from

“Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.”

— George William Curtis

Author: George William Curtis
Category: intelligence
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