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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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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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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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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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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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Character Chest Modesty Noble Reside Virtue
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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Honesty Man Marriage Myself Opinion Population
Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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Tenderness is a virtue.
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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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Alive Enough Humility Proud

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