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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.

Oliver Goldsmith

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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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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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The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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Tenderness is a virtue.
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On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, ‘Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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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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Art Harm Joke Yourself
I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.
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The 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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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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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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