On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, ‘Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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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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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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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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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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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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The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
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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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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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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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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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