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Oliver Goldsmith Quotes

Oliver Goldsmith quote: "All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a..."

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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Now it’s high watermark and floodtide in the heart and time to go. The sea-nymphs in the spray will be the chorus now. What’s left to say? Suspect too much sweet-talk but never close your mind. It was a fortunate wind that blew me here. I leave half-ready to believe that a crippled trust might walk and the half-true rhyme is love. Seamus Heaney
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery quote: "It is such a secret place, the land of tears."
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I would love to continue in music, with writing... but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don't need to be blonde when I'm 60! Taylor Swift
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I just don't think there are any rules to color. You have a small space with no windows? Put lamps in there, make it dramatic, paint the ceiling black. Do something with it. If it's dark, accentuate the darkness. David Bromstad
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There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful. Henry A. Wallace