Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHThey say women and music should never be dated.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
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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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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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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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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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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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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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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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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 jests of the rich are ever successful.
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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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