People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHHonour sinks where commerce long prevails.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
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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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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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They say women and music should never be dated.
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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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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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.
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