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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

Oliver Goldsmith

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Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
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Conscience Coward Justice Mistake Seldom Strength
Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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Compatible Friendship Passion Pity
I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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Choice Marriage Quality Wife
There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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Excellence Mistake Scarce Vice Virtue
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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Desire Greatness Knowledge Natural Possible Reading Writing
The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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Company End Fools Melancholy Smile
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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Brain Genius Goodness Grammar Myself
With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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Alive Enough Humility Proud
Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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Employment Man Pleasant Poet
Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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Fall Inspirational One Liner Success Time
Tenderness is a virtue.
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One Liner Tender Virtue
Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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Hard Time Inspirational Journey Life Motivational Travel
On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, ‘Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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Affect Natural Stage
Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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Deep Hope Perspective
I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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Friendship Love Myself Old
Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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Man Money One Liner Wealth

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