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!

Quote by Oliver Goldsmith

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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always...

The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always...

Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.

Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.

How happy he who crowns in shades like these, A youth of labour with an...

How happy he who crowns in shades like these, A youth of labour with an...

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly...

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly...

Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.

Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.

She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice,...

She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice,...

The jests of the rich are ever successful.

The jests of the rich are ever successful.

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

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

With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest...

With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest...

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after

Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry

Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry

There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out...

There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out...

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

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

As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent.

As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent.

Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of...

Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of...

I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do...

I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do...

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Work is often the father of pleasure.

Work is often the father of pleasure.