The jests of the rich are ever successful.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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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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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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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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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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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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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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Tenderness is a virtue.
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
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