Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHBe not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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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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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.
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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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They say women and music should never be dated.
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When 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?
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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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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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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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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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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