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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.

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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Art Finding Herself Love Melancholy Woman
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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Best Enemy Field Home Ourselves Way
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
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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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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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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Better Life Lips Preach Yourself
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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Copy Improvement Modeling People
Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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Deep Hope Perspective
The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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Tenderness is a virtue.
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One Liner Tender Virtue
All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
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Appreciation Feeling Husband Marriage Praise
Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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Fall Inspirational One Liner Success Time
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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Conscience Coward Justice Mistake Seldom Strength
Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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