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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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Oliver Goldsmith

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.

Loneliness

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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

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.

Learning

Oliver Goldsmith

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

Friendship