The jests of the rich are ever successful.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHThe best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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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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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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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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They say women and music should never be dated.
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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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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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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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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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