With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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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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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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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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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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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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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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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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