The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHLet schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
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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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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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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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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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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, ‘Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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