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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.

Oliver Goldsmith

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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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Employment Man Pleasant Poet
Tenderness is a virtue.
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One Liner Tender Virtue
Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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Country Culture Different Polite Treatment
The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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Audience Best Laughter Way
If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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Pride Talk Value
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
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
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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Brain Genius Goodness Grammar Myself
The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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Rich Successful
I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.
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Honesty Man Marriage Myself Opinion Population
Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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Compatible Friendship Passion Pity
They say women and music should never be dated.
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Date Music Woman
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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Beautiful Charm Description Happiness Nature Novel Paint Romance Sex
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
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

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