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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

Oliver Goldsmith

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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?
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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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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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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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Tenderness is a virtue.
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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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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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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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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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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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