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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.

Oliver Goldsmith

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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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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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Tenderness is a virtue.
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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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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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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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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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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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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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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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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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