Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHThe hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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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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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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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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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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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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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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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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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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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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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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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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