Oliver Goldsmith

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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

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friendship
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

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friendship
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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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home
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

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hope
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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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learning
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I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

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love
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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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smile
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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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strength
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

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

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wedding
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Man wants but little here below nor wants that little long.

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man , wants , little , here , below
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Philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an errant jade on a journey.

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philosophy , good , horse
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I'll fares the land, to hastening ills of prey where wealth accumulates, and men decay.

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ills , prey , where , wealth , men
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.

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you , were , make , little , fishes
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He who seeks for applause only from without has all his happiness in another's keeping.

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he , who , seeks , applause , only