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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!

Oliver Goldsmith

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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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Criticism World Writing Yourself
I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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Choice Marriage Quality Wife
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
Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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Man Money One Liner Wealth
The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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Champion Defend Weird
Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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Compatible Friendship Passion Pity
The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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Audience Best Laughter Way
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
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
Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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Discrimination Grind Law Money Politics Poor Rich
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
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
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
Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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Character Chest Modesty Noble Reside Virtue

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