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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
Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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Employment Man Pleasant Poet
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
The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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Audience Best Laughter Way
Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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Compatible Friendship Passion Pity
Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.
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Art Harm Joke Yourself
Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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Discrimination Grind Law Money Politics Poor Rich
Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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Champion Defend Weird
I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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Choice Marriage Quality Wife
They say women and music should never be dated.
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Date Music Woman
If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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Pride Talk Value
Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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Commerce Existence Respect Sink
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
On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, ‘Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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Affect Natural Stage
Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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Man Patience Wait
With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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Alive Enough Humility Proud

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