Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHI chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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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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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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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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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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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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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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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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Tenderness is a virtue.
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