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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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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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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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On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, ‘Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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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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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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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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