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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.

Oliver Goldsmith

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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
The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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Audience Best Laughter Way
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
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Conscience Coward Justice Mistake Seldom Strength
You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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Better Life Lips Preach 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
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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Commerce Equality Friendship Slave
Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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Criticism World Writing Yourself
Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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Man Money One Liner Wealth
Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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Country Culture Different Polite Treatment
Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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Character Chest Modesty Noble Reside Virtue
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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Copy Improvement Modeling People
Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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Discrimination Grind Law Money Politics Poor Rich
On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, ‘Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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Affect Natural Stage
Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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Feeling Girl Play Time

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