Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHSuccess consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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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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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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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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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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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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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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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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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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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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