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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.

Oliver Goldsmith

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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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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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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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On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, ‘Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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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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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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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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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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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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Tenderness is a virtue.
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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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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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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