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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

Oliver Goldsmith

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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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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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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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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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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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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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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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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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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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On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, ‘Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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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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They say women and music should never be dated.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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