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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.

Oliver Goldsmith

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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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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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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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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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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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They say women and music should never be dated.
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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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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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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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Friendship Love Myself Old
Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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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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