Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHTenderness is a virtue.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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They say women and music should never be dated.
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Tenderness is a virtue.
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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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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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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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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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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