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"28 Oliver Goldsmith Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 10 November 1728. Died: 4 April 1774 | Novelist | Poet | Playwright |

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Preach Lips Sermon Life
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The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.

Crowded Fruition Happy Hours
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

Any Bait Covers Hook
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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
Copy Improve Model Other
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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.

Best Best Way Enemy Field
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
Absurdity Champion Defend Every
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject

Abject Between Commerce Disinterested
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They say women and music should never be dated.

Dated Music Never Say
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

Consists Fall Getting Just
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

Each Friendship Incompatible Other
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.

Fishes Like Little Make
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.

Audience Best Best Way Laugh
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.

Better Could Critic How
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.

Ceremonies Country Different Every
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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.

Always Company End Feel
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

Bad How Journey Life
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I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

Books Everything Friends I Love
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.

Alive Bring Disadvantages Enough
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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.

Appreciated Husband Little Pitied
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When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?

Art Away Betray Charm
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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.

Brought Continue Did Ever
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.

Girl Like Little Played
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

Commerce Honour Long Prevails
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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.

Alone Anticipation Calamity Future
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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.

Blind Country Curiosity Goes
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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!

Beauty Bliss Charming Colors
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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.

Arise Attaining Become Desire
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.

Law Men Poor Rich
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Oliver Goldsmith Quotes & Sayings