Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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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They say women and music should never be dated.
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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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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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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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
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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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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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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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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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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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Tenderness is a virtue.
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