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.
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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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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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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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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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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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 company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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They say women and music should never be dated.
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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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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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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