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Oliver Goldsmith
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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.
Oliver Goldsmith
Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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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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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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Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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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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Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.
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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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They say women and music should never be dated.
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The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
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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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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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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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A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
Oliver Goldsmith
The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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Tenderness is a virtue.
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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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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.
Oliver Goldsmith
Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall.
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?
Oliver Goldsmith
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!
Oliver Goldsmith
Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
Oliver Goldsmith
On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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To make a fine gentleman several trades are required but chiefly a barber.
Oliver Goldsmith
Ceremonies are different in every country but true politeness is everywhere the same.
Oliver Goldsmith
Conscience is a coward and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
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Premature consolation is but the remembrancer of sorrow.
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To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.
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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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Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.
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