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

Oliver Goldsmith

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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
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
On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, ‘Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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Affect Natural Stage
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
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
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
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
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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Copy Improvement Modeling People
Tenderness is a virtue.
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One Liner Tender Virtue
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 chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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Choice Marriage Quality Wife
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
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
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
If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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Pride Talk Value

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