With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHThe jests of the rich are ever successful.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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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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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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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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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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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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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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They say women and music should never be dated.
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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