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.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHHope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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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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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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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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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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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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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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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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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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