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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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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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Tenderness is a virtue.
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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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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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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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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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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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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?
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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