Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHModesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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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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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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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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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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Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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Tenderness is a virtue.
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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