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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.

Oliver Goldsmith

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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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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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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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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?
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Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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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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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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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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