Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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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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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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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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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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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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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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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!
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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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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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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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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