Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHHope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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Tenderness is a virtue.
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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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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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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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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On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, ‘Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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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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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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