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

Quote by Oliver Goldsmith

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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...

Tenderness is a virtue.

Tenderness is a virtue.

Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no lies.

Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no lies.

Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.

Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.

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

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

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.

Our Garrick's a salad; for in him we see, Oil, vinegar, sugar and saltiness agree

Our Garrick's a salad; for in him we see, Oil, vinegar, sugar and saltiness agree

Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall

Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall

Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness...

Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness...

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...

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

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

They say women and music should never be dated.

They say women and music should never be dated.

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...

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law

Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall.

Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall.

Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.

Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.

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.

If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.

If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.

Where wealth accumulates, men decay.

Where wealth accumulates, men decay.

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...