If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHAs 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 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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Tenderness is a virtue.
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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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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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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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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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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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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