Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHPeople seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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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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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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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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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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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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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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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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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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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 jests of the rich are ever successful.
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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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