The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHMan wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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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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On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, ‘Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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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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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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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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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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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
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A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.
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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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Tenderness is a virtue.
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