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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

Oliver Goldsmith

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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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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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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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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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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.
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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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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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They say women and music should never be dated.
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