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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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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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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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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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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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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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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
On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, ‘Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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Affect Natural Stage
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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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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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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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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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!
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