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Quote by Oliver Goldsmith
People seldom improve when they have no other model, but themselve

People seldom improve when they have no other model, but themselves to copy after. – Oliver Goldsmith

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Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success. – Oliver Goldsmith

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Ridicule
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Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning. – Oliver Goldsmith

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Learning
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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. – Oliver Goldsmith

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Knowledge
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An ounce of practice is worth a pound of preaching. – Proverb

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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire. – Christian Nevell Bovee

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Example

It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words. – Eric Hoffer

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Example

We are too quick to imitate depraved examples. – Juvenal

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