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The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.

Oliver Goldsmith

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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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Tenderness is a virtue.
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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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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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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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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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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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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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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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