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

Oliver Goldsmith · Wedding

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Oliver Goldsmith

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

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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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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

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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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