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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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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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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On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, ‘Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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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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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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They say women and music should never be dated.
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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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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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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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