The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHTenderness is a virtue.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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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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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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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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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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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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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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