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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.

Oliver Goldsmith

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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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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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Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.
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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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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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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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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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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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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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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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Tenderness is a virtue.
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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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