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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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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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Rich Successful
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
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
Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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Man Money One Liner Wealth
You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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Better Life Lips Preach Yourself
Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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Compatible Friendship Passion Pity
I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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Friendship Love Myself Old
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
Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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Champion Defend Weird
Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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Country Culture Different Polite Treatment
The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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Audience Best Laughter Way
They say women and music should never be dated.
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Date Music Woman
The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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Company End Fools Melancholy Smile
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
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
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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Copy Improvement Modeling People

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