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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

Oliver Goldsmith

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
If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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Pride Talk Value
Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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Discrimination Grind Law Money Politics Poor Rich
Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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Man Patience Wait
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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Commerce Equality Friendship Slave
I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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Choice Marriage Quality Wife
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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Calm Future Greatness Lying Past Present Source Wisdom
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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Beautiful Charm Description Happiness Nature Novel Paint Romance Sex
Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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Feeling Girl Play Time
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
On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, ‘Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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Affect Natural Stage
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
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
Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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Compatible Friendship Passion Pity
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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Conscience Coward Justice Mistake Seldom Strength
I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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Friendship Love Myself Old

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

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