I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHConscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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They say women and music should never be dated.
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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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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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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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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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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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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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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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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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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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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