Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHPity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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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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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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They say women and music should never be dated.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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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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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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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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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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