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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Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.Oliver Goldsmith
As ten millions of circles can never make a square, so the united voice of myriads cannot lend the smallest foundation to falsehood.
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Alike all ages. Dames of ancient days Have led their children through the mirthful maze, And the gay grandsire, skill'd in gestic lore, Has frisk'd beneath the burden of threescore.
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By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd The sports of children satisfy the child.
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Good counsel rejected returns to enrich the givers bosom.
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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