Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHLaw grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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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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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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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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On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, ‘Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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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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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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Tenderness is a virtue.
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