Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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 chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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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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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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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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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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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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They say women and music should never be dated.
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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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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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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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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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