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.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHFriendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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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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Tenderness is a virtue.
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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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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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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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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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, ‘Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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