Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHCeremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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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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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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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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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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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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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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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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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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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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They say women and music should never be dated.
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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