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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.

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
Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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Discrimination Grind Law Money Politics Poor Rich
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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Art Finding Herself Love Melancholy Woman
I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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Choice Marriage Quality Wife
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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Country Curiosity Himself Home Leaving Man Philosophy
Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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Hard Time Inspirational Journey Life Motivational Travel
The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
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Crowd Fruit Happiness Time
Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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Employment Man Pleasant Poet
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
Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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Man Money One Liner Wealth
The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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Rich Successful
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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Conscience Coward Justice Mistake Seldom Strength
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
Tenderness is a virtue.
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One Liner Tender Virtue
Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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Champion Defend Weird
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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Commerce Equality Friendship Slave

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