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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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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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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.

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

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

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The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.

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Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.

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

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They say women and music should never be dated.

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Poet

Born: November 10th, 1730

Died: April 4th, 1774

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