Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHTenderness is a virtue.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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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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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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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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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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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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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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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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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?
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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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