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All Quotes by author - Oliver Goldsmith

" 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. "

" All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw. "

" Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same. "

" Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse. "

" Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet. "

" Every absurdity has a champion to defend it. "

" Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves. "

" Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes. "

" Honour sinks where commerce long prevails. "

" Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook. "

" I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well. "

" If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales. "

" I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine. "

" 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. "

" Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law. "

" Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning. "

" Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations. "

" Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long. "

" Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues. "

" On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting. "

" People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy. "

" Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other. "

" 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! "

" Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall. "

" Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes. "

" Tenderness is a virtue. "

" The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself. "

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