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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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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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Character Chest Modesty Noble Reside Virtue
All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
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Appreciation Feeling Husband Marriage Praise
On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, ‘Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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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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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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Criticism World Writing Yourself
Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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They say women and music should never be dated.
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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
I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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Choice Marriage Quality Wife
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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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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Country Culture Different Polite Treatment

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