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Oliver Goldsmith

"Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet."

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"Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet."

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"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."

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"Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die."

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"Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable."

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"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God."

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"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."

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"Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom."

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"It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing."

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"Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved."

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"A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own."

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"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint."

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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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"People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy."
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"Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall."
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"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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"Tenderness is a virtue."
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"The jests of the rich are ever successful."
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"Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law."
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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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