Oliver Goldsmith - She Stoops to Conquer (1773)

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As for disappointing them I should not so much mind; but I can't abide to disappoint myself.

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Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain,
With grammar, and nonsense, and learning;
Good liquor, I stoutly maintain,
Gives genus a better discerning.

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All is not gold that glitters,
Pleasure seems sweet, but proves a glass of bitters

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I'll be with you in the squeezing of a lemon.

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Baw! Damme, but I'll fight you both, one after the other!
With baskets.

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They liked the book the better the more it made them cry.

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Your worship must not tell the story of Ould Grouse in the gun-room.

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Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs.

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We modest Gentlemen don't want for much success among the women.

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In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stagecoach.

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We are the boys
That fear no noise
Where the thundering cannons roar.

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Oh sir! I must not tell my age.
They say women and music should never be dated.

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A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.

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The genteel thing is the genteel thing any time, if as be that a gentleman bees in a concatenation accordingly.

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Travellers, George, must pay in all places: the only difference is, that in good inns, you pay dearly for your luxuries, and in bad inns you are fleeced and starved.

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

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As for murmurs, mother, we grumble a little now and then, to be sure; but there's no love lost between us.

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I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.

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