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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

Oliver Goldsmith

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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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Calm Future Greatness Lying Past Present Source Wisdom
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 hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
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Crowd Fruit Happiness Time
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
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
They say women and music should never be dated.
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Date Music Woman
Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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Commerce Existence Respect Sink
Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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Discrimination Grind Law Money Politics Poor Rich
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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Copy Improvement Modeling People
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
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
The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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Rich Successful
Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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Criticism World Writing 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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Brain Genius Goodness Grammar Myself
If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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Pride Talk Value

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