Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHTenderness is a virtue.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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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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On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, ‘Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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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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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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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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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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Tenderness is a virtue.
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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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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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