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

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
Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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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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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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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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Criticism World Writing Yourself
Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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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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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
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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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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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

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