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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.

Oliver Goldsmith

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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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Commerce Equality Friendship Slave
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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Brain Genius Goodness Grammar Myself
They say women and music should never be dated.
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Date Music Woman
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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Copy Improvement Modeling People
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
Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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Employment Man Pleasant Poet
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
On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, ‘Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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Affect Natural Stage
I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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Choice Marriage Quality Wife
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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Art Harm Joke Yourself
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
Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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Discrimination Grind Law Money Politics Poor Rich
If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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Pride Talk Value
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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Conscience Coward Justice Mistake Seldom Strength
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
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

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