Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHIf you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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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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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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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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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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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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