Tenderness is a virtue.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHThe best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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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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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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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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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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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, ‘Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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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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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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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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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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