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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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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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Country Curiosity Himself Home Leaving Man Philosophy
Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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Hard Time Inspirational Journey Life Motivational Travel
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
The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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Audience Best Laughter Way
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
You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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Better Life Lips Preach Yourself
Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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Man Patience Wait
Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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Character Chest Modesty Noble Reside Virtue
Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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Country Culture Different Polite Treatment
Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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Fall Inspirational One Liner Success Time
Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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Compatible Friendship Passion Pity
I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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Choice Marriage Quality Wife
If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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Pride Talk Value
The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
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Crowd Fruit Happiness Time
Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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Commerce Existence Respect Sink
Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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Employment Man Pleasant Poet
Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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Feeling Girl Play Time
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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Commerce Equality Friendship Slave
Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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Criticism World Writing Yourself
On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, ‘Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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Affect Natural Stage
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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Copy Improvement Modeling People
Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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Man Money One Liner Wealth
Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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Champion Defend Weird
Tenderness is a virtue.
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One Liner Tender Virtue
I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.
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Honesty Man Marriage Myself Opinion Population
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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Calm Future Greatness Lying Past Present Source Wisdom

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