Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHFriendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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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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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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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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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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They say women and music should never be dated.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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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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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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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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