Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHIf you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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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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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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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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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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The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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They say women and music should never be dated.
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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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