Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.
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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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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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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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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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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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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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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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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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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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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