Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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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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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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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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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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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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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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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Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.
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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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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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