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Danh ngôn của Oliver Goldsmith (Sứ mệnh: 8)

Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
They say women and music should never be dated.
Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.
A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!
As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.
Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.