The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHHope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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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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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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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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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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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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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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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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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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When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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