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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.

Oliver Goldsmith

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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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Alive Enough Humility Proud
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
I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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Choice Marriage Quality Wife
Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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Commerce Equality Friendship Slave
Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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Commerce Existence Respect Sink
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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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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Man Money One Liner Wealth
Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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Rich Successful
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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Excellence Mistake Scarce Vice Virtue
Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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Character Chest Modesty Noble Reside Virtue
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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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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Copy Improvement Modeling People

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