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People seldom improve when they have no other model, but themselve

People seldom improve when they have no other model, but themselves to copy after. – Oliver Goldsmith

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I love everything thats old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine. – Oliver Goldsmith

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They may talk of a comet, or a burning mountain, or some such bagatelle; but to me a modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation. – Oliver Goldsmith

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He teaches me to be good that does me good. – Thomas Fuller

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Nothing preaches better than the act. – Benjamin Franklin

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They teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing master. – Samuel Johnson

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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire. – Christian Nevell Bovee

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