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?
OLIVER GOLDSMITHWrite how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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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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They say women and music should never be dated.
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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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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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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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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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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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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