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On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, ‘Twas only when he was off, he was acting.

Oliver Goldsmith

Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Feeling Girl Play Time
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.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Country Curiosity Himself Home Leaving Man Philosophy
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Commerce Equality Friendship Slave
Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Art Harm Joke Yourself
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Conscience Coward Justice Mistake Seldom Strength
The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Audience Best Laughter Way
The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Crowd Fruit Happiness Time
As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Desire Greatness Knowledge Natural Possible Reading Writing
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.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Honesty Man Marriage Myself Opinion Population
Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Employment Man Pleasant Poet
There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Excellence Mistake Scarce Vice Virtue
Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Country Culture Different Polite Treatment
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Copy Improvement Modeling People
On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, ‘Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Affect Natural Stage
Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Man Patience Wait
The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Company End Fools Melancholy Smile

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