The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
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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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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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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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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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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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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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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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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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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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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