With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHFriendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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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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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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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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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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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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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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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!
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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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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