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The jests of the rich are ever successful.

Oliver Goldsmith

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All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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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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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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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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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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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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