You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHThey say women and music should never be dated.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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Tenderness is a virtue.
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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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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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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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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?
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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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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 best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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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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