"I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well."
-Oliver Goldsmith
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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.“
-Oliver Goldsmith
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"Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall."
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"I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine."
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"I have prayed to God that he give me the strength to survive each day and to face those times in my life that will be extremely painful. I have put my total faith in God, and he will take care of me."
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"I saw him... at peace in my armchair. I remember wishing he could stay in peace like that forever. I had a feeling of easing his burden with my strength."
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"The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it."
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