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Tenderness is a virtue.
Oliver Goldsmith
Virtue
Tenderness
You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
Oliver Goldsmith
Life
Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
Oliver Goldsmith
Want
World
With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
Oliver Goldsmith
Humility
Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
Oliver Goldsmith
Men
Wealth
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
Art
Men
Charm
Folly
Guilt
Melancholy
Woman
They say women and music should never be dated.
Oliver Goldsmith
Music
Women
There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
Oliver Goldsmith
Virtue
Excellence
Faults
Vice
The jests of the rich are ever successful.
Oliver Goldsmith
Successful
The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
Oliver Goldsmith
Company
End
First
Fools
May
Melancholy
Smile
I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
Oliver Goldsmith
Wedding
Wife
Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
Oliver Goldsmith
Hope
Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
Oliver Goldsmith
Commerce
Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
Oliver Goldsmith
Girls
Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
Oliver Goldsmith
Absurdity