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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

Oliver Goldsmith

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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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They say women and music should never be dated.
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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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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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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Friendship Love Myself Old
Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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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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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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Conscience Coward Justice Mistake Seldom Strength
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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The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
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Crowd Fruit Happiness Time

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