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

Oliver Goldsmith

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When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?
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Art Finding Herself Love Melancholy Woman
Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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Discrimination Grind Law Money Politics Poor Rich
Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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Feeling Girl Play Time
Tenderness is a virtue.
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One Liner Tender Virtue
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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Copy Improvement Modeling People
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
Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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Man Money One Liner Wealth
On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, ‘Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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Affect Natural Stage
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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Commerce Equality Friendship Slave
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
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
I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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Choice Marriage Quality Wife
Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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Country Culture Different Polite Treatment
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
Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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Fall Inspirational One Liner Success Time
Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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Deep Hope Perspective
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
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
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
Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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Employment Man Pleasant Poet
Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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Man Patience Wait
Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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Commerce Existence Respect Sink
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
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
The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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Audience Best Laughter Way
Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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Champion Defend Weird
They say women and music should never be dated.
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Date Music Woman

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