The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHLaw grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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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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On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, ‘Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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They say women and music should never be dated.
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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
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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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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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