Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHModesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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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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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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They say women and music should never be dated.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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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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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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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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The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
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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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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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