With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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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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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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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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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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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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Tenderness is a virtue.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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