If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHWhen 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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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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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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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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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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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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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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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
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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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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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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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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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