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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.

Oliver Goldsmith

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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
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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Commerce Equality Friendship Slave
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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Copy Improvement Modeling People
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 jests of the rich are ever successful.
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Rich Successful
Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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Man Patience Wait
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 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
Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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Discrimination Grind Law Money Politics Poor Rich
The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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Audience Best Laughter Way
Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
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Brain Genius Goodness Grammar Myself
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
Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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Champion Defend Weird
Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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Compatible Friendship Passion Pity
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
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

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