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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!

Oliver Goldsmith

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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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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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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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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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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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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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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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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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They say women and music should never be dated.
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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