The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHIf you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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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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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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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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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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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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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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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.
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