People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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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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Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!
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On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, ‘Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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