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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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They say women and music should never be dated.
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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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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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The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
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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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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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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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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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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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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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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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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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