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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.

Oliver Goldsmith

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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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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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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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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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