Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHHonour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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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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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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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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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They say women and music should never be dated.
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I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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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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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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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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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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