If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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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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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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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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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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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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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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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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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Tenderness is a virtue.
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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