All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHCould a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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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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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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The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
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Tenderness is a virtue.
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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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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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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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They say women and music should never be dated.
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