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

Quote by Oliver Goldsmith

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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.

Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.

Aromatic plants bestow no spicy fragrance while they grow; but crush'd or trodden to the...

Aromatic plants bestow no spicy fragrance while they grow; but crush'd or trodden to the...

They say women and music should never be dated.

They say women and music should never be dated.

Where wealth accumulates, men decay.

Where wealth accumulates, men decay.

Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.

Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.

For just experience tells, in every soil, That those who think must govern those who...

For just experience tells, in every soil, That those who think must govern those who...

All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised...

All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised...

Silence is become his mother tongue.

Silence is become his mother tongue.

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he...

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he...

With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest...

With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest...

Tenderness is a virtue.

Tenderness is a virtue.

Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and...

Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and...

To the last moment of his breath, On hope the wretch relies; And even the...

To the last moment of his breath, On hope the wretch relies; And even the...

Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.

Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive...

Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive...

Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.

Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. Never esteem anything as of...

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. Never esteem anything as of...

People who don't Think probably don't have Brains; rather, they have grey fluff that's blown...

People who don't Think probably don't have Brains; rather, they have grey fluff that's blown...