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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.

Oliver Goldsmith

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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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Compatible Friendship Passion Pity
Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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Feeling Girl Play Time
Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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Discrimination Grind Law Money Politics Poor Rich
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
Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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Fall Inspirational One Liner Success Time
When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?
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Art Finding Herself Love Melancholy Woman
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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Commerce Equality Friendship Slave
The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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Rich Successful
Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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Employment Man Pleasant Poet
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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Conscience Coward Justice Mistake Seldom Strength
I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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Choice Marriage Quality Wife
Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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Deep Hope Perspective
They say women and music should never be dated.
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Date Music Woman
On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, ‘Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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Affect Natural Stage
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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Honesty Man Marriage Myself Opinion Population
Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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Man Patience Wait
Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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Commerce Existence Respect Sink
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
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
Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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Criticism World Writing Yourself
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
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
Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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Character Chest Modesty Noble Reside Virtue
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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Copy Improvement Modeling People
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
I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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Friendship Love Myself Old
Tenderness is a virtue.
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One Liner Tender Virtue

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