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.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHThe best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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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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Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.
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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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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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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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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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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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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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