The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHEvery absurdity has a champion to defend it.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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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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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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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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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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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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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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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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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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They say women and music should never be dated.
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