The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.
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They say women and music should never be dated.
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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 best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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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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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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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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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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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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