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?
OLIVER GOLDSMITHThe best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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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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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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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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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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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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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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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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