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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

Oliver Goldsmith

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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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Employment Man Pleasant Poet
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
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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The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
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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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Affect Natural Stage
They say women and music should never be dated.
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Date Music Woman
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
Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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Country Culture Different Polite Treatment
Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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Character Chest Modesty Noble Reside Virtue
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
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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Copy Improvement Modeling People
Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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Deep Hope Perspective
Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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Man Patience Wait
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
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

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