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Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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. - Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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. - Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little. - Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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 Quotes
Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw. - Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same. - Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse. - Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet. - Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
Dont let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter. - Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
Every absurdity has a champion to defend it. - Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves. - Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes. - Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
Honour sinks where commerce long prevails. - Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook. - Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
Hope, like the gleaming tapers light, Adorns and cheers our way; And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray. - Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
I chose my wife as she did her wedding-gown, not for a fine glossy surface, but such qualities as would wear well. - Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well. - Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
I love everything thats old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine. - Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population. - Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales. - Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
Ill fares the land, to hastning ill a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay; Princes and Lords may flourish, or may fade: A breath can make them, as a breath has made; but a bold peasantry, their countrys pride, When once destroyed can never be supplied. - Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law. - Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning. - Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations. - Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long. - Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues. - Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, Twas only when he was off, he was acting. - Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall. - Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. - Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after. - Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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