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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

Oliver Goldsmith

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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Beautiful Charm Description Happiness Nature Novel Paint Romance Sex
If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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Pride Talk Value
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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Excellence Mistake Scarce Vice Virtue
I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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Choice Marriage Quality Wife
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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Country Curiosity Himself Home Leaving Man Philosophy
You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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Better Life Lips Preach Yourself
Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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Man Patience Wait
On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, ‘Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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Affect Natural Stage
Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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Compatible Friendship Passion Pity
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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Conscience Coward Justice Mistake Seldom Strength
The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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Audience Best Laughter Way
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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Brain Genius Goodness Grammar Myself
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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Art Finding Herself Love Melancholy Woman
I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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Friendship Love Myself Old
Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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Country Culture Different Polite Treatment
They say women and music should never be dated.
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Date Music Woman

I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

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