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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Good people all, of every sort, Give ear unto my song And if you do find it wondrous short, It cannot hold you long.Oliver Goldsmith
This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stage-coach.
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Beside the bed where parting life was laid,
And sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismayed,
The reverend champion stood.
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