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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

Oliver Goldsmith

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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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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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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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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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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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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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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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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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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
With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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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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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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