The jests of the rich are ever successful.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHWith disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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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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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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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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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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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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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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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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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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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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