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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.

Oliver Goldsmith

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Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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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 hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
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Crowd Fruit Happiness Time
They say women and music should never be dated.
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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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On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, ‘Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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Affect Natural Stage
Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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Champion Defend Weird
Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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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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Art Harm Joke Yourself
Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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Man Patience Wait
Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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Commerce Existence Respect Sink
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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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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Feeling Girl Play Time
Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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Criticism World Writing Yourself

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