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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.

Oliver Goldsmith

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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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Desire Greatness Knowledge Natural Possible Reading Writing
Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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Feeling Girl Play Time
Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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Commerce Existence Respect Sink
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
Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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Criticism World Writing Yourself
Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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Discrimination Grind Law Money Politics Poor Rich
Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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Man Patience Wait
They say women and music should never be dated.
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Date Music Woman
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
Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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Character Chest Modesty Noble Reside Virtue
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
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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Copy Improvement Modeling People
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
If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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Pride Talk Value
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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Commerce Equality Friendship Slave
Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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