Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHFriendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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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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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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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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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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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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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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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They say women and music should never be dated.
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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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