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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Oliver Goldsmith

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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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Discrimination Grind Law Money Politics Poor Rich
I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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Friendship Love Myself Old
I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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Choice Marriage Quality Wife
The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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Copy Improvement Modeling People
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
On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, ‘Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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Affect Natural Stage
Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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Employment Man Pleasant Poet
Tenderness is a virtue.
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One Liner Tender Virtue
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
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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Art Harm Joke Yourself
Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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Character Chest Modesty Noble Reside Virtue
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
Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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Champion Defend Weird
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

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