People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHTenderness is a virtue.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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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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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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Tenderness is a virtue.
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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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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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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.
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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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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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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.
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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