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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.

Oliver Goldsmith

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
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
Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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Compatible Friendship Passion Pity
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
They say women and music should never be dated.
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Date Music Woman
With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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Alive Enough Humility Proud
I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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Choice Marriage Quality Wife
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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Beautiful Charm Description Happiness Nature Novel Paint Romance Sex
The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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Rich Successful
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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Commerce Equality Friendship Slave
I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Friendship Love Myself Old
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
If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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Pride Talk Value
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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Best Enemy Field Home Ourselves Way
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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Excellence Mistake Scarce Vice Virtue
Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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Commerce Existence Respect Sink

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