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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

Oliver Goldsmith

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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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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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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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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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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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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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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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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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