The jests of the rich are ever successful.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHGirls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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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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Tenderness is a virtue.
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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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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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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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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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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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On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, ‘Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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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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