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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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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
Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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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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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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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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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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Excellence Mistake Scarce Vice Virtue
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
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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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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Feeling Girl Play Time
Tenderness is a virtue.
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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Better Life Lips Preach Yourself
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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Best Enemy Field Home Ourselves Way
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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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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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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Conscience Coward Justice Mistake Seldom Strength

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