They say women and music should never be dated.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHLaw grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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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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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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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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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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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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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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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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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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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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