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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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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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Friendship Love Myself Old
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
With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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Alive Enough Humility Proud
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
Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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Man Patience Wait
Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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Country Culture Different Polite Treatment
Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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Champion Defend Weird
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
The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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Audience Best Laughter Way
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
The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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Rich Successful
Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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Character Chest Modesty Noble Reside Virtue
Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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Discrimination Grind Law Money Politics Poor Rich
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
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

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