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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.

Oliver Goldsmith

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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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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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Tenderness is a virtue.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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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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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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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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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
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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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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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.
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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