The jests of the rich are ever successful.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHConscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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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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The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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