Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHWrite how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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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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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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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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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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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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The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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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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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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