With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHCeremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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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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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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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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Tenderness is a virtue.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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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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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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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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