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!
OLIVER GOLDSMITHLaw grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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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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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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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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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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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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On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, ‘Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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Tenderness is a virtue.
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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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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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