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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?

Oliver Goldsmith

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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 company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, ‘Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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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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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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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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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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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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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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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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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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