On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, ‘Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHI 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.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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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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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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They say women and music should never be dated.
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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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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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