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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.

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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Appreciation Feeling Husband Marriage Praise
Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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Criticism World Writing Yourself
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
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
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
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
Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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Man Patience Wait
I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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Friendship Love Myself Old
Tenderness is a virtue.
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One Liner Tender Virtue
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
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
Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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Discrimination Grind Law Money Politics Poor Rich
On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, ‘Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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Affect Natural Stage
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
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
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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