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.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHWrite how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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Tenderness is a virtue.
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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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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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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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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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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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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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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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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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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