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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.

Oliver Goldsmith

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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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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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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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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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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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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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Tenderness is a virtue.
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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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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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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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