Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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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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Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.
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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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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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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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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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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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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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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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