"I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well."
-Oliver Goldsmith
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"The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.“
-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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"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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"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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"When Fortune smiles, I smile to think how quickly she will frown."
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"We ought to be beating our chests every day. We ought to look in the mirror, stick out our chests, suck in our bellies, and say, 'Damn, we're Americans,' and smile."
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"Ascetics and fakirs come to mitigate human suffering to heal us and lead us on the path. They put up with criticism they go through many worldly trials. Some of them have even become martyrs for our sake. But they have done all this with a smile and with gratitude to God. Hence sacrifice is a great virtue."
-Sadhu Vaswani
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