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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.

Oliver Goldsmith

Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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Man Money One Liner Wealth
The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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Rich Successful
Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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Feeling Girl Play Time
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
I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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Friendship Love Myself Old
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
If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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Pride Talk Value
Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
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Brain Genius Goodness Grammar Myself
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
I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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Choice Marriage Quality Wife
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
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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Copy Improvement Modeling People
A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
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Country Curiosity Himself Home Leaving Man Philosophy
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
Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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Champion Defend Weird
You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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Better Life Lips Preach Yourself

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