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

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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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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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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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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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
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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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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Friendship Love Myself Old
The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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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 hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
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Crowd Fruit Happiness Time
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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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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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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