Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHHope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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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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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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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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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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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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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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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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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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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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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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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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