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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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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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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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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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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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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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All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
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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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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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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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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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