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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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

They say women and music should never be dated.

They say women and music should never be dated.

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

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

Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.

Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.

Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

For just experience tells, in every soil, That those who think must govern those who...

For just experience tells, in every soil, That those who think must govern those who...

The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to...

The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to...

Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive...

Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive...

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

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

Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.

Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it...

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it...

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law

Of all kinds of ambition, that which pursues poetical fame is the wildest

Of all kinds of ambition, that which pursues poetical fame is the wildest

Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive...

Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive...

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

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

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

Where wealth accumulates, men decay.

Where wealth accumulates, men decay.

Tenderness is a virtue.

Tenderness is a virtue.

Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.

Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.

Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness...

Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness...