Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHAll that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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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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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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Tenderness is a virtue.
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
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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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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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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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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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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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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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