Tenderness is a virtue.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHThe best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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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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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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The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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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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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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They say women and music should never be dated.
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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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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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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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