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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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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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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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