QUOTES by Oliver Goldsmith
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"To aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured; to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little service."
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"For just experience tells, in every soil, That those who think must govern those who toil"
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"But in his duty prompt at every call, he watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all."
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"And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be, Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound, And curs of low degree"
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"I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well."
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"Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones."
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"The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity; yet there is a still greater, which is the good man that comes to relieve it"
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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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"Every absurdity has a champion to defend it; for error is always talkative."
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"We had no revolutions to fear, nor fatigues to undergo; all our adventures were by the fireside, and all our migrations from the blue bed to the brown."
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"Of all kinds of ambition, that which pursues poetical fame is the wildest"
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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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"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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"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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"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?"
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"The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found, at last, to be of our own producing"
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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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"The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself."
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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."
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"Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse."
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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."
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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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"And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew."
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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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"Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same."
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"Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better."
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"Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations."
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