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 GOLDSMITHWhere wealth accumulates, men decay.
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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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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Tenderness is a virtue.
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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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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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They say women and music should never be dated.
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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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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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