Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHRomance 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!
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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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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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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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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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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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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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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Tenderness is a virtue.
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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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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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