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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.

Oliver Goldsmith

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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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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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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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Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.
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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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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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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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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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They say women and music should never be dated.
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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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