Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHI love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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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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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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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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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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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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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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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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