Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHLaw grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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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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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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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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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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Tenderness is a virtue.
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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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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Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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