Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHThe jests of the rich are ever successful.
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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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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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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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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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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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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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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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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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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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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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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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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