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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.

Oliver Goldsmith

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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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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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Best Enemy Field Home Ourselves Way
Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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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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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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Employment Man Pleasant Poet
Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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Man Money One Liner Wealth
Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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Character Chest Modesty Noble Reside Virtue
On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, ‘Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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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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Desire Greatness Knowledge Natural Possible Reading Writing
Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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Fall Inspirational One Liner Success 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
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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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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Friendship Love Myself Old
Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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Tenderness is a virtue.
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