Oliver Goldsmith

" The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy. "
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May , End , First , Smile , Company , Melancholy
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" Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves. "
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Love , Friendship , Commerce
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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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Future , Past , Present , Regret , Calamity
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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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Strength , Justice , Faults , Conscience
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" Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same. "
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Country , Politeness
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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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Art , Harm
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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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Country , Man , Home , Curiosity , Blind
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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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Wife , Husband
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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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Knowledge , Desire , Writers
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" If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales. "
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Talk
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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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Happiness , Nature , Romance , Colors
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" Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other. "
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Friendship , Pity
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" People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy. "
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People
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Oliver Goldsmith
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10-11-1730 04-04-1774 Writer, Poet, and Playwright citation
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