And fools who came to scoff remain'd to pray.
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Good people all, of every sort, Give ear unto my song And if you do find it wondrous short, It cannot hold you long.Oliver Goldsmith
When a person has no need to borrow they find multitudes willing to lend.
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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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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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And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be, Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound, And curs of low degree.
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We had no revolutions to fear, nor fatigues to undergo all our adventures were by the fireside, and all our migrations from the blue bed to the brown.
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