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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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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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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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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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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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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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