Tenderness is a virtue.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHWrite how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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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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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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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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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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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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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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