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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.

Oliver Goldsmith

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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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Criticism World Writing 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
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
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
They say women and music should never be dated.
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Date Music Woman
Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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Character Chest Modesty Noble Reside Virtue
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
Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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Employment Man Pleasant Poet
On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, ‘Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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Affect Natural Stage
Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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Man Money One Liner Wealth
Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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Commerce Existence Respect Sink
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
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
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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Commerce Equality Friendship Slave
You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Better Life Lips Preach Yourself

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