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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.

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
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
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
They say women and music should never be dated.
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Date Music Woman
Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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Compatible Friendship Passion Pity
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
I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.
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Honesty Man Marriage Myself Opinion Population
Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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Country Culture Different Polite Treatment
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
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
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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Commerce Equality Friendship Slave
Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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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.
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Art Harm Joke Yourself
Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Hard Time Inspirational Journey Life Motivational Travel
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
The jests of the rich are ever successful.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Rich Successful

Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.

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