People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHGirls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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Tenderness is a virtue.
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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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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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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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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.
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