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“The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.”

Oliver Goldsmith · Smile

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Oliver Goldsmith

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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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Friendship

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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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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.

Wedding