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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.

Oliver Goldsmith

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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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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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On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, ‘Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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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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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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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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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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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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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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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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