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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

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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Country Curiosity Himself Home Leaving Man Philosophy
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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Desire Greatness Knowledge Natural Possible Reading Writing
Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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Country Culture Different Polite Treatment
Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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Deep Hope Perspective
Tenderness is a virtue.
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One Liner Tender Virtue
Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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Man Money One Liner Wealth
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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Appreciation Feeling Husband Marriage Praise
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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Commerce Equality Friendship Slave
They say women and music should never be dated.
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Date Music Woman
Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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Feeling Girl Play Time
Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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Character Chest Modesty Noble Reside Virtue
If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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Pride Talk Value
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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Best Enemy Field Home Ourselves Way
Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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Employment Man Pleasant Poet
Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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Compatible Friendship Passion Pity
On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, ‘Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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Affect Natural Stage
Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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Champion Defend Weird
Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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Criticism World Writing Yourself
Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
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Brain Genius Goodness Grammar Myself
The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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Company End Fools Melancholy Smile
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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Copy Improvement Modeling People
The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
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Crowd Fruit Happiness Time
Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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Man Patience Wait
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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Conscience Coward Justice Mistake Seldom Strength
Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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Commerce Existence Respect Sink
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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Calm Future Greatness Lying Past Present Source Wisdom
There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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Excellence Mistake Scarce Vice Virtue

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