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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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A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
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Country Curiosity Himself Home Leaving Man Philosophy
Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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Feeling Girl Play Time
If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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Pride Talk Value
Tenderness is a virtue.
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One Liner Tender Virtue
Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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Commerce Existence Respect Sink
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
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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Appreciation Feeling Husband Marriage Praise
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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Desire Greatness Knowledge Natural Possible Reading Writing
The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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Audience Best Laughter Way
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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Commerce Equality Friendship Slave
You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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Better Life Lips Preach Yourself
Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.
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Best Enemy Field Home Ourselves Way
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
Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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Compatible Friendship Passion Pity
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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Calm Future Greatness Lying Past Present Source Wisdom
Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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Criticism World Writing Yourself

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