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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.

Oliver Goldsmith

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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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Tenderness is a virtue.
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On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, ‘Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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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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Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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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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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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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
As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.
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They say women and music should never be dated.
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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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