Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHWhere wealth accumulates, men decay.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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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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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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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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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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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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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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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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They say women and music should never be dated.
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On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, ‘Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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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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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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