Quote by Oliver Goldsmith
Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other. – Oliver Goldsmith

Other quotes by Oliver Goldsmith

We had no revolutions to fear, nor fatigues to undergo; all our adventures were by the fireside, and all our migrations from the blue bed to the brown. – Oliver Goldsmith

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Retirement
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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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Friendship
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Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. – George Washington

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Friendship

The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two. – Sophie Swetchine

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Friendship

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention. – Clifton Paul Fadiman

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Friendship

I come from the New York theatre world, and I have a lot of gay male friends, so this friendship of Will and Graces isnt such a stretch. – Debra Messing

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Your private life is your private life and you keep it to yourself. You get more respect that way. – Jay Kay

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Any landing you can walk away from is a good one. – Proverb

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Jesting is often only indigence of intellect. – Jean De La Bruyere

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There are many in this old world of ours who hold that things break about even for all of us. I have observed for example that we all get the same amount of ice. The rich get it in the summertime and the poor get it in the winter. – Bat Masterson

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