Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHRomance 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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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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They say women and music should never be dated.
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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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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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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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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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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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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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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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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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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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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