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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.

Oliver Goldsmith

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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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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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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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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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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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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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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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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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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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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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