Tenderness is a virtue.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHWhere wealth accumulates, men decay.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
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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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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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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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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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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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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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