"I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well."
-Oliver Goldsmith
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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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"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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"I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine."
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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."
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