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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.

Oliver Goldsmith

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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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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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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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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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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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Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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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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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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Tenderness is a virtue.
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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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They say women and music should never be dated.
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