Tenderness is a virtue.
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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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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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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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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They say women and music should never be dated.
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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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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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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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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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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
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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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