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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.

Oliver Goldsmith

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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
Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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Country Culture Different Polite Treatment
If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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Pride Talk Value
All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
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Appreciation Feeling Husband Marriage Praise
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
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
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
Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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Compatible Friendship Passion Pity
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
Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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Employment Man Pleasant Poet
Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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Commerce Existence Respect Sink
I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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Friendship Love Myself Old
I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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Choice Marriage Quality Wife
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
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
Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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Man Money One Liner Wealth

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