The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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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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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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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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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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Tenderness is a virtue.
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On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, ‘Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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They say women and music should never be dated.
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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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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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