Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHOn the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, ‘Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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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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Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.
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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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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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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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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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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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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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