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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.

Oliver Goldsmith

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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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Copy Improvement Modeling People
The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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Audience Best Laughter Way
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
Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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Discrimination Grind Law Money Politics Poor Rich
Tenderness is a virtue.
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One Liner Tender Virtue
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
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
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
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
Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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Man Patience Wait
Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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Champion Defend Weird
I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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Choice Marriage Quality Wife
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
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
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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Desire Greatness Knowledge Natural Possible Reading Writing

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