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.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHThey say women and music should never be dated.
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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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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 best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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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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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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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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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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They say women and music should never be dated.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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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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