On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, ‘Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHTenderness is a virtue.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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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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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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Tenderness is a virtue.
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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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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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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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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