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Tenderness is a virtue.
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
Oliver Goldsmith
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I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
Oliver Goldsmith -
The man recovered of the bite,The dog it was that died.
Oliver Goldsmith -
Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
Oliver Goldsmith -
Even children followed with endearing wile,And plucked his gown, to share the good man's smile.
Oliver Goldsmith -
There is no arguing with Johnson: for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it.
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On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
Oliver Goldsmith
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
Oliver Goldsmith -
The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.
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They say women and music should never be dated.
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.
Oliver Goldsmith -
To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.
Oliver Goldsmith
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That virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarce worth the sentinel.
Oliver Goldsmith -
Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
Oliver Goldsmith -
Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow,Or by the lazy Scheldt, or wandering Po.
Oliver Goldsmith -
For he who fights and runs awayMay live to fight another day;But he who is in battle slainCan never rise and fight again.
Oliver Goldsmith -
Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
Oliver Goldsmith -
Paltry affectation, strained allusions, and disgusting finery are easily attained by those who choose to wear them; they are but too frequently the badges of ignorance or of stupidity, whenever it would endeavor to please.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Those who place their affections at first on trifles for amusement, will find these trifles become at last their most serious concerns.
Oliver Goldsmith -
Luke's iron crown, and Damien's bed of steel.
Oliver Goldsmith -
The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
Oliver Goldsmith -
Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
Oliver Goldsmith