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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 Goldsmith

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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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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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Country Curiosity Himself Home Leaving Man Philosophy
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
You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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Criticism World Writing Yourself
The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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Employment Man Pleasant Poet
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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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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Compatible Friendship Passion Pity
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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Beautiful Charm Description Happiness Nature Novel Paint Romance Sex
Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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Fall Inspirational One Liner Success Time
On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, ‘Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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Affect Natural Stage
The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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Rich Successful
Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
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