Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHHope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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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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Tenderness is a virtue.
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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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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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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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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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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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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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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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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