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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?

Oliver Goldsmith

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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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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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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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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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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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Tenderness is a virtue.
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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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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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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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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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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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Pride Talk Value
The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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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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