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Tenderness is a virtue.

Oliver Goldsmith

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
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
Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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Fall Inspirational One Liner Success Time
They say women and music should never be dated.
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Date Music Woman
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
I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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Friendship Love Myself Old
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
If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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Pride Talk Value
Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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Employment Man Pleasant Poet
Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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Compatible Friendship Passion Pity
On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, ‘Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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Affect Natural Stage
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
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
Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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Deep Hope Perspective
Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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Criticism World Writing Yourself
The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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Audience Best Laughter Way

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