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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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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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Rich Successful
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
Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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Compatible Friendship Passion Pity
Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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Champion Defend Weird
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
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
Tenderness is a virtue.
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One Liner Tender Virtue
I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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Choice Marriage Quality Wife
Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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Discrimination Grind Law Money Politics Poor Rich
Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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Country Culture Different Polite Treatment
Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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Hard Time Inspirational Journey Life Motivational Travel
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
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
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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Commerce Equality Friendship Slave
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

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