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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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The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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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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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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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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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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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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Tenderness is a virtue.
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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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