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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

The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
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Crowd Fruit Happiness Time
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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Excellence Mistake Scarce Vice Virtue
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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Copy Improvement Modeling People
Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Country Culture Different Polite Treatment
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
Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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Man Patience Wait
The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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Audience Best Laughter Way
Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Criticism World Writing Yourself
With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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Alive Enough Humility Proud
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
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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Desire Greatness Knowledge Natural Possible Reading Writing
Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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Champion Defend Weird
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
You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Better Life Lips Preach Yourself
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Commerce Equality Friendship Slave
On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, ‘Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Affect Natural Stage

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