If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHSuccess consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
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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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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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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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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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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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Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.
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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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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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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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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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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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