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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.

Oliver Goldsmith

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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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As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.
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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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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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Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
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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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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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