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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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They say women and music should never be dated.
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Date Music Woman
Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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Man Patience Wait
Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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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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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
If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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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
I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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Friendship Love Myself Old
Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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Man Money One Liner Wealth
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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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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Crowd Fruit Happiness Time
Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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Commerce Existence Respect Sink
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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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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Champion Defend Weird

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