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

Oliver Goldsmith

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

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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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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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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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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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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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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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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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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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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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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, ‘Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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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
Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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Better Life Lips Preach Yourself

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