They say women and music should never be dated.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHPity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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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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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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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?
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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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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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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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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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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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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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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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