They say women and music should never be dated.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHSurely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.
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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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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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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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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Tenderness is a virtue.
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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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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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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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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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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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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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