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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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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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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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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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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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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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They say women and music should never be dated.
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, ‘Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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