Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHAs 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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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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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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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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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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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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Tenderness is a virtue.
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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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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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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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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