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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.

Oliver Goldsmith

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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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Alive Enough Humility Proud
Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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Deep Hope Perspective
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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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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Better Life Lips Preach Yourself
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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Conscience Coward Justice Mistake Seldom Strength
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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Excellence Mistake Scarce Vice Virtue
Tenderness is a virtue.
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One Liner Tender Virtue
I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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Friendship Love Myself Old
They say women and music should never be dated.
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Date Music Woman
The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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Company End Fools Melancholy Smile
Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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Employment Man Pleasant Poet
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 chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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Choice Marriage Quality Wife
Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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Man Money One Liner Wealth
Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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Compatible Friendship Passion Pity
Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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Commerce Existence Respect Sink

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