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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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Oliver Goldsmith

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.

Loneliness

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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!

Beauty

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I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

Love

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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.

Learning