Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHOn the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, ‘Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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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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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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They say women and music should never be dated.
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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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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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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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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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