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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

Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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Compatible Friendship Passion Pity
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
Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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Champion Defend Weird
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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Beautiful Charm Description Happiness Nature Novel Paint Romance Sex
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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Best Enemy Field Home Ourselves Way
Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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Criticism World Writing Yourself
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
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
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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Art Harm Joke Yourself
You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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Better Life Lips Preach Yourself
If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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Pride Talk Value
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
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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Excellence Mistake Scarce Vice Virtue
I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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Friendship Love Myself Old
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.
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Desire Greatness Knowledge Natural Possible Reading Writing
I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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Choice Marriage Quality Wife

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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