Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHWhen 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?
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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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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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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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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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.
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Tenderness is a virtue.
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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They say women and music should never be dated.
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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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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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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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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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