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Oliver Goldsmith

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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.

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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.

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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.

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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

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

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

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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

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