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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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On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, ‘Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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Tenderness is a virtue.
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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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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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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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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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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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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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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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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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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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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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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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