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

Oliver Goldsmith

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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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Commerce Existence Respect Sink
Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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Character Chest Modesty Noble Reside Virtue
Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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Discrimination Grind Law Money Politics Poor Rich
Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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Criticism World Writing Yourself
Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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Country Culture Different Polite Treatment
The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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Company End Fools Melancholy Smile
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 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
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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Commerce Equality Friendship Slave
They say women and music should never be dated.
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Date Music Woman
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
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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Champion Defend Weird
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
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

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