"Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves."
-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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"I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine."
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"Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook."
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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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"A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond."
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"It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second."
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"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."
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"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
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"The starting point of all achievement is desire."
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"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
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