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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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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.

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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.

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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.

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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.

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I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.

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Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.

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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.

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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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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Poet

Born: November 10th, 1730

Died: April 4th, 1774

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