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!
OLIVER GOLDSMITHPeople seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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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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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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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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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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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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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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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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