Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHYou can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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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 best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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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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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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