With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHHope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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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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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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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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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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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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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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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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On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, ‘Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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