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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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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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Pride Talk Value
Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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Compatible Friendship Passion Pity
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
Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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Discrimination Grind Law Money Politics Poor Rich
Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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Fall Inspirational One Liner Success Time
Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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Man Patience Wait
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
They say women and music should never be dated.
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Date Music Woman
Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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Criticism World Writing Yourself
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
The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
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Crowd Fruit Happiness Time
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
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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Conscience Coward Justice Mistake Seldom Strength
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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Copy Improvement Modeling People
Tenderness is a virtue.
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One Liner Tender Virtue
I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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Friendship Love Myself Old

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