O Luxury thou curst by Heaven's decree.
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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.Oliver Goldsmith
Ask me no questions, and I 'll tell you no fibs.
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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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There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. Fontenelle says he would undertake to persuade the whole public of readers to believe that the sun was neither the cause of light or heat, if he could only get six philosophers on his side.
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They please, are pleas'd they give to get esteem, Till seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.
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Measures, not men, have always been my mark.
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