All Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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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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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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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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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall.
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