There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHTenderness is a virtue.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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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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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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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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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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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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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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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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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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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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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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