Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
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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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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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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Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.
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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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When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?
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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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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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They say women and music should never be dated.
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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 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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