Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHI 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.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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They say women and music should never be dated.
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Tenderness is a virtue.
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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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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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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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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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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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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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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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