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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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
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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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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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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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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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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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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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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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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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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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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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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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