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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

Oliver Goldsmith

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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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