Oliver Goldsmith quotes - page 7

The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself. (Oliver Goldsmith)
Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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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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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.
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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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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.
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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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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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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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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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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes. (Oliver Goldsmith)
Dean Swift perceived that there was a spirit of romance mixed with all the works of the poets who preceded him; or, in other words, that they had drawn nature on the most pleasing side. There still therefore was a place left for him, who, careless of censure, should describe it just as it was, with all its deformities; he therefore owes much of his fame, not so much to the greatness of his genius, as to the boldness of it.
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The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read a book over I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.
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Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.
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A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.
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No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it.
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If one wishes to become rich they must appear rich.
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Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.
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The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.
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Silence is become his mother tongue.
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I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts. (Oliver Goldsmith)
We seldom speak of the virtue which we have, but much oftener of that which we lack.
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As ten millions of circles can never make a square, so the united voice of myriads cannot lend the smallest foundation to falsehood.
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People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.
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You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.
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