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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

Oliver Goldsmith

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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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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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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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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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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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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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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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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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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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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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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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