All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHI love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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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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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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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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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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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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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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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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Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.
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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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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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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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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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