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Tenderness is a virtue.

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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.

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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.

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On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.

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All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.

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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.

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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

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The jests of the rich are ever successful.

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As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Poet

Born: November 10th, 1730

Died: April 4th, 1774

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