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?
OLIVER GOLDSMITHLife is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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Tenderness is a 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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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 company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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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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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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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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