Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!
From Oliver Goldsmith
All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
Tenderness is a virtue.
Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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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