Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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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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On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, ‘Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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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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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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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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