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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.

Oliver Goldsmith

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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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Desire Greatness Knowledge Natural Possible Reading Writing
Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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Criticism World Writing Yourself
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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Art Finding Herself Love Melancholy Woman
Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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Man Patience Wait
Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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Commerce Existence Respect Sink
The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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Company End Fools Melancholy Smile
With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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Alive Enough Humility Proud
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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Best Enemy Field Home Ourselves Way
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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Appreciation Feeling Husband Marriage Praise
I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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Friendship Love Myself Old
Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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Fall Inspirational One Liner Success Time
Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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Character Chest Modesty Noble Reside Virtue
You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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Better Life Lips Preach Yourself
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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