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Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
- Bait
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
- Joke
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- Nov 07, 2020
Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.
- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
- Enemy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.
- Champion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
- Commerce
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- Nov 07, 2020
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
They say women and music should never be dated.
- Tenderness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tenderness is a virtue.
- Wear
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- Nov 07, 2020
I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
- Politeness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020