All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHBe not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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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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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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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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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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Tenderness is a virtue.
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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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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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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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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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