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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

Oliver Goldsmith

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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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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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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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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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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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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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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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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.
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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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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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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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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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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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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