Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHWrite how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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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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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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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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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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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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A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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They say women and music should never be dated.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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