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

Oliver Goldsmith

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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
Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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Champion Defend Weird
Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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Deep Hope Perspective
Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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Compatible Friendship Passion Pity
The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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Company End Fools Melancholy Smile
Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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Commerce Existence Respect Sink
I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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Choice Marriage Quality Wife
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 jests of the rich are ever successful.
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Rich Successful
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
Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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Employment Man Pleasant Poet
There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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Excellence Mistake Scarce Vice Virtue
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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Honesty Man Marriage Myself Opinion Population
If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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Pride Talk Value
Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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Man Money One Liner Wealth
Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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Character Chest Modesty Noble Reside Virtue

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