Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHWhen 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?
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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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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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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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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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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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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They say women and music should never be dated.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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