People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHModesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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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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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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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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Tenderness is a virtue.
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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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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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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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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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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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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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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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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