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

Oliver Goldsmith

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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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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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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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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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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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Tenderness is a virtue.
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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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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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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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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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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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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