People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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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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Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!
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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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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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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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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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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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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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