Author: Oliver Goldsmith

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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.

The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.

- Oliver Goldsmith

Where wealth accumulates, men decay.

Where wealth accumulates, men decay.

- Oliver Goldsmith

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

- Oliver Goldsmith

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

- Oliver Goldsmith

Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.

Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.

- Oliver Goldsmith

Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.

Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.

- Oliver Goldsmith

I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.

I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.

- Oliver Goldsmith

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

- Oliver Goldsmith

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?

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?

- Oliver Goldsmith

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