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.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHA 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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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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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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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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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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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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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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Tenderness is a virtue.
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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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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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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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