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!
OLIVER GOLDSMITHWrite how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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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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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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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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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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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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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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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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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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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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