Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHThe jests of the rich are ever successful.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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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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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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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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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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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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Tenderness is a virtue.
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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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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