The jests of the rich are ever successful.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHThere are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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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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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 company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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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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Tenderness is a virtue.
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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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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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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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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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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