Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHAll that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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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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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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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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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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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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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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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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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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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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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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