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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.

Oliver Goldsmith

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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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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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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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Tenderness is a virtue.
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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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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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They say women and music should never be dated.
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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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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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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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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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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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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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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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