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

Oliver Goldsmith

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
You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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Better Life Lips Preach Yourself
The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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Company End Fools Melancholy Smile
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
Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Country Culture Different Polite Treatment
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.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Country Curiosity Himself Home Leaving Man Philosophy
On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, ‘Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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Affect Natural Stage
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
I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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Choice Marriage Quality Wife
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
Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Employment Man Pleasant Poet
Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Art Harm Joke Yourself
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
Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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Man Money One Liner Wealth
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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Commerce Equality Friendship Slave
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

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

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