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The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.

Oliver Goldsmith

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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!
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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, ‘Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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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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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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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.
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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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