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

Oliver Goldsmith

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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
Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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Character Chest Modesty Noble Reside Virtue
Tenderness is a virtue.
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One Liner Tender Virtue
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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Beautiful Charm Description Happiness Nature Novel Paint Romance Sex
Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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Country Culture Different Polite Treatment
On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, ‘Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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Affect Natural Stage
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
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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Appreciation Feeling Husband Marriage Praise
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
Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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Man Money One Liner Wealth
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
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
Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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Criticism World Writing Yourself
Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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Commerce Existence Respect Sink
Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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Employment Man Pleasant Poet
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

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