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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.

Oliver Goldsmith

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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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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
Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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Friendship Love Myself Old
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
Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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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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On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, ‘Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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Affect Natural Stage
The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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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
If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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Pride Talk Value
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
Tenderness is a virtue.
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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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Company End Fools Melancholy Smile

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