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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

Oliver Goldsmith

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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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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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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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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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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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