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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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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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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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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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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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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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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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They say women and music should never be dated.
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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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