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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

Oliver Goldsmith

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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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Champion Defend Weird
They say women and music should never be dated.
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Date Music Woman
If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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Man Patience Wait
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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Country Curiosity Himself Home Leaving Man Philosophy
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
Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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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
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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Commerce Equality Friendship Slave
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
Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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Employment Man Pleasant Poet
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
Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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Character Chest Modesty Noble Reside Virtue
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
Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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