Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHLaw grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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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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The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
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A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.
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They say women and music should never be dated.
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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Tenderness is a virtue.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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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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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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