Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHLife is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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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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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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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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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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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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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.
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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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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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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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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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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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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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