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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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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
Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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Compatible Friendship Passion Pity
Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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Discrimination Grind Law Money Politics Poor Rich
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
Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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Fall Inspirational One Liner Success Time
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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Commerce Equality Friendship Slave
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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Beautiful Charm Description Happiness Nature Novel Paint Romance Sex
On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, ‘Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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Affect Natural Stage
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
Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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Commerce Existence Respect Sink
They say women and music should never be dated.
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Date Music Woman
I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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Choice Marriage Quality Wife
Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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Deep Hope Perspective
If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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Pride Talk Value
Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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Employment Man Pleasant Poet
Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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Feeling Girl Play Time

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