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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.

Oliver Goldsmith

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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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Country Curiosity Himself Home Leaving Man Philosophy
The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
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Crowd Fruit Happiness Time
The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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Company End Fools Melancholy Smile
I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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Friendship Love Myself Old
Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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Fall Inspirational One Liner Success Time
Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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Hard Time Inspirational Journey Life Motivational Travel
I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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Choice Marriage Quality Wife
If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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Pride Talk Value
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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Calm Future Greatness Lying Past Present Source Wisdom
Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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Champion Defend Weird
When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?
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Art Finding Herself Love Melancholy Woman
Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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Criticism World Writing Yourself
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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Appreciation Feeling Husband Marriage Praise
Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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Country Culture Different Polite Treatment
Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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Employment Man Pleasant Poet
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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Commerce Equality Friendship Slave

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