With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHA 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.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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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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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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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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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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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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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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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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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.
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They say women and music should never be dated.
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