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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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"Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same."

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"When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?"

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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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