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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. – Oliver Goldsmith

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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! – Oliver Goldsmith

Category:
Beauty
Author
Oliver Goldsmith
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Aromatic plants bestow
no spicy fragrance while they grow;
but crushd or trodden to the ground,
diffuse their balmy sweets around. – Oliver Goldsmith

Category:
Smell (scent)
Author
Oliver Goldsmith
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Today osteoporosis affects more than 75 million people in the United States, Europe and Japan and causes more than 2.3 million fractures in the USA and Europe alone. – Gro Harlem Brundtland

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alone

Man does not live by soap alone and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

Category:
alone

Offspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on ones wife alone. – Guru Nanak

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alone

Ive been left alone, even by the paparazzi, because what sells is sex and scandal. Absent that, they really dont have much interest in you. Im still married, still working, still happy. – Matt Damon

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alone

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In life, each of us must sometimes play the fool. – Yiddish Proverb

Category:
Fools, Foolishness

Since its based on my parents, its more emotionally close to me than some of my more surreal plays. And then I like the balance of the comic and the sad. It should play as funny, but you should care about the characters and feel sad for them. – Christopher Durang

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sad

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people. – Judy Garland

Category:
Love