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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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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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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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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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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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Company End Fools Melancholy Smile
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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Excellence Mistake Scarce Vice Virtue
Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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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
They say women and music should never be dated.
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Date Music Woman
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
The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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Rich Successful
On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, ‘Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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Affect Natural Stage
Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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