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.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHHope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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Tenderness is a virtue.
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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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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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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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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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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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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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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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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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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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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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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