Oliver Goldsmith Quotes

Irish - Poet | November 10, 1730 - April 4, 1774

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

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CountryTrueSamePolitenessEvery

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.

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

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Tenderness is a virtue.

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

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

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

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WifeWeddingSheWearHerWell

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

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SometimesLittleLikePlayedToo

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

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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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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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