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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!

Oliver Goldsmith

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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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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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