Tenderness is a virtue.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHHonour sinks where commerce long prevails.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.
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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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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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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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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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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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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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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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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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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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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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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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