Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHModesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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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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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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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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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.
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They say women and music should never be dated.
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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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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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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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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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Tenderness is a virtue.
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