Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHWrite how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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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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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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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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Tenderness is a virtue.
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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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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