Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHLaw grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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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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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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They say women and music should never be dated.
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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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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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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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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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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