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Quote by Oliver Goldsmith
Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other. – Oliver Goldsmith

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We had no revolutions to fear, nor fatigues to undergo; all our adventures were by the fireside, and all our migrations from the blue bed to the brown. – Oliver Goldsmith

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Retirement
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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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Prom Night
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Friendship
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During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures. – Paul Getty

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Watching John Lasseters films, I think I can understand better than anyone that what hes doing, is going straight ahead with his vision and working really hard to get that vision into film form. And I feel that my understanding this of him is my friendship towards him. – Hayao Miyazaki

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Friendship

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same. – Elbert Hubbard

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Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared. – Mortimer Adler

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