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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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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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Feeling Girl Play Time
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
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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Copy Improvement Modeling People
The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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Rich Successful
Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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Discrimination Grind Law Money Politics Poor Rich
Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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Commerce Existence Respect Sink
Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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Country Culture Different Polite Treatment
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
If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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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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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
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
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
Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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Criticism World Writing Yourself
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
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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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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Champion Defend Weird
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
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
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
A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.
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Calm Future Greatness Lying Past Present Source Wisdom
You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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Better Life Lips Preach Yourself
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

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