"I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well."
-Oliver Goldsmith
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"Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.“
-Oliver Goldsmith
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"Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall."
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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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"The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy."
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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 love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine."
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"I loved my 17 years with R.E.M., but I'm ready to reflect, assess and move on to a different phase of my life. The four of us will continue our close friendship, and I look forward to hearing their future efforts as the world's biggest R.E.M. fan."
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"In the name of the United States and President Bush, I want to thank the Mexican people, President Fox and his government for their friendship."
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"Never be afraid to meet to the hilt the demand of either work, or friendship - two of life's major assets."
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"A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both."
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"The friendship of Shostakovich cast a brilliant light over my whole life and whose spiritual qualities captured my soul once and for all time."
-Galina Vishnevskaya
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"To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time."
-Cornelia Otis Skinner
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