Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHRomance 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!
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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They say women and music should never be dated.
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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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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Tenderness is a virtue.
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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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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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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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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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The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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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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