Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHWhen 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?
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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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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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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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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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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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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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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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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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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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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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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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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