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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.

Oliver Goldsmith

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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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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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They say women and music should never be dated.
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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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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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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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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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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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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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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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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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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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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!
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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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