They say women and music should never be dated.
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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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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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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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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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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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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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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