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«Persecution is a tribute the great must always pay for preeminence.»
«Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.»
«Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure.»
«The jests of the rich are ever successful.»
«Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.»
«Is he like Burke, who winds into a subject like a serpent?»
«Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.»
«We are the boys / That fear no noise / Where the thundering cannons roar.»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
(Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
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cannons, roar, thundering
«Silence is become his mother tongue.»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
(Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
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Silence
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mother tongue
«Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, and fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.»
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