People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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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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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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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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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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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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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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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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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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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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The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
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