With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHYou can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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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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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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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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Tenderness is a virtue.
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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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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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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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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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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