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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

Oliver Goldsmith

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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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Tenderness is a virtue.
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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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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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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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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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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
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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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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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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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They say women and music should never be dated.
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