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The jests of the rich are ever successful.

Oliver Goldsmith

The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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Company End Fools Melancholy Smile
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
Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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Employment Man Pleasant Poet
I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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Friendship Love Myself Old
Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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Deep Hope Perspective
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
Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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Man Money One Liner Wealth
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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Commerce Equality Friendship Slave
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
Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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Feeling Girl Play Time
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
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
The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
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Crowd Fruit Happiness Time
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
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
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

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