Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHWhere wealth accumulates, men decay.
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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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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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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They say women and music should never be dated.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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Tenderness is a virtue.
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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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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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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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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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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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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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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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