Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHPeople seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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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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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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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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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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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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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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