"Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves."
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Quotes by Oliver Goldsmith
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"Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other."
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"Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook."
Oliver Goldsmith"The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself."
Oliver Goldsmith"Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning."
Oliver Goldsmith"You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips."
Oliver Goldsmith"Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations."
Oliver Goldsmith"All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little."
Oliver Goldsmith"Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law."
Oliver Goldsmith"Where wealth accumulates, men decay."
Oliver Goldsmith"They say women and music should never be dated."
Oliver Goldsmith"The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy."
Oliver Goldsmith"Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall."
Oliver Goldsmith"I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well."
Oliver Goldsmith"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."
Oliver Goldsmith