Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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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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They say women and music should never be dated.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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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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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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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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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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