Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.

Quote by Oliver Goldsmith

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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry

Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry

She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice,...

She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice,...

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly...

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly...

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law

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

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

The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to...

The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to...

Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.

Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.

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

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

Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.

Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.

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...

Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of...

Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of...

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

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

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise...

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise...

The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling...

The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling...

Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

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...

Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.

Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.

Law 16: Use absence to increase respect and honor.

Law 16: Use absence to increase respect and honor.

Nobody can acquire honor by doing what is wrong

Nobody can acquire honor by doing what is wrong