Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.
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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All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
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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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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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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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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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They say women and music should never be dated.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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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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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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