Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHHope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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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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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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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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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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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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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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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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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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