The jests of the rich are ever successful.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHEvery absurdity has a champion to defend it.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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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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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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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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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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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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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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Tenderness is a virtue.
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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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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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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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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