Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHA man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
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Tenderness is a virtue.
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
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They say women and music should never be dated.
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?
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