Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.
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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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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Tenderness is a virtue.
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They say women and music should never be dated.
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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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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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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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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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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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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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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