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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.

Oliver Goldsmith

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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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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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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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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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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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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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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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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!
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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