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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.

Oliver Goldsmith

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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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Copy Improvement Modeling People
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
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
Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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Deep Hope Perspective
On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, ‘Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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Affect Natural Stage
Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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Fall Inspirational One Liner Success 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
The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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Rich Successful
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
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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Honesty Man Marriage Myself Opinion Population
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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Appreciation Feeling Husband Marriage Praise
Tenderness is a virtue.
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One Liner Tender Virtue
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
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
Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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Man Patience Wait
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

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