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!
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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The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
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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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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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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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All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
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Tenderness is a virtue.
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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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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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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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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