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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.

Oliver Goldsmith

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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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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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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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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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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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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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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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