I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHYou can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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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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They say women and music should never be dated.
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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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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Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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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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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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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, ‘Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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