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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.

Oliver Goldsmith

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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
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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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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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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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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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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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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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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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On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, ‘Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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Tenderness is a virtue.
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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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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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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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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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Best Enemy Field Home Ourselves Way

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