All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHI 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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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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They say women and music should never be dated.
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Tenderness is a virtue.
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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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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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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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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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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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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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