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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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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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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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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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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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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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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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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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Deep Hope Perspective
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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Tenderness is a virtue.
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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Feeling Girl Play Time
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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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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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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Audience Best Laughter Way

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