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

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Smell (scent)
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Oliver Goldsmith
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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy. – Oliver Goldsmith

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

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Practice what you preach. – Proverb

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Precept guides, but example draws. – Proverb

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It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words. – Eric Hoffer

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In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance. – Henry Miller

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There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good. – Mahatma Gandhi

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