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.
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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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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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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The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
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They say women and music should never be dated.
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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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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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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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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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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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