People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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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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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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, ‘Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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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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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.
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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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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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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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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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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