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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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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
Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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Country Culture Different Polite Treatment
The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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Company End Fools Melancholy Smile
I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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Friendship Love Myself Old
On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, ‘Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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Affect Natural Stage
They say women and music should never be dated.
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Date Music Woman
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
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
Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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Champion Defend Weird
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
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
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
Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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Employment Man Pleasant Poet
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
You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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Better Life Lips Preach Yourself
Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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Discrimination Grind Law Money Politics Poor Rich

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