Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHWrite how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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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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A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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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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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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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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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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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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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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Tenderness is a virtue.
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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