On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, ‘Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHSuccess consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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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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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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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 company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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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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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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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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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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