Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
From Oliver Goldsmith
I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.
I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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.
The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?
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