People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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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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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As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.
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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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They say women and music should never be dated.
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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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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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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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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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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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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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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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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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