If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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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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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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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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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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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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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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They say women and music should never be dated.
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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 company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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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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