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

Oliver Goldsmith

Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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Criticism World Writing Yourself
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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Appreciation Feeling Husband Marriage Praise
As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.
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Desire Greatness Knowledge Natural Possible Reading Writing
The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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Rich Successful
Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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Compatible Friendship Passion Pity
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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Best Enemy Field Home Ourselves Way
You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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Better Life Lips Preach Yourself
On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, ‘Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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Affect Natural Stage
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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Calm Future Greatness Lying Past Present Source Wisdom
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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Art Harm Joke Yourself
Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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Employment Man Pleasant Poet
Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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Man Patience Wait
With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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Alive Enough Humility Proud
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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Honesty Man Marriage Myself Opinion Population
I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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Choice Marriage Quality Wife
I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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Friendship Love Myself Old

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