Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHLaw grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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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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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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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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They say women and music should never be dated.
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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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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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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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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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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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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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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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Tenderness is a virtue.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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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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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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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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