There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHLet schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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They say women and music should never be dated.
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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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Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
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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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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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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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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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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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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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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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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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