I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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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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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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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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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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Tenderness is a virtue.
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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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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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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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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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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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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