Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHCeremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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They say women and music should never be dated.
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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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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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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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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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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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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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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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