Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHThey say women and music should never be dated.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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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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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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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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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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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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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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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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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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