There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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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On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, ‘Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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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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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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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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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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The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
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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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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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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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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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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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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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