Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHThe company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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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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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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All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
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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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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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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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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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Tenderness is a virtue.
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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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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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