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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

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse. – Oliver Goldsmith

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strength
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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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She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes. – Oliver Goldsmith

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Romance
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Friendship
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When Ted Williams was here, inducted into the Hall of Fame 37 years ago, he said he must have earned it, because he didnt win it because of his friendship with the writers. I guess in that way, Im proud to be in this company that way. – Eddie Murray

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A friend can tell you things you don’t want to tell yourself. – Frances Ward Weller

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Friendship is Love with jewels on, but without either flowers or veil. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports. – Kenneth Branagh

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Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty. – Alfred de Vigny

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