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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.

Oliver Goldsmith

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I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
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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.
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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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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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