People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHWhere wealth accumulates, men decay.
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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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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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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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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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.
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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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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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Tenderness is a virtue.
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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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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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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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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