They say women and music should never be dated.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHIf you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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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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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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Tenderness is a virtue.
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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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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 chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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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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