Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
Vain, very vain, my weary search to findThat bliss which only centers in the mind.
Oliver Goldsmith
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The irony is that Washington was, in reality, very much like Benedict Arnold. The big difference was that Washington was ultimately able to control his emotions, something Arnold never learned to do.
Nathaniel Philbrick
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In the long winter evenings he talked to Ma about the Western country. In the West the land was level, and there were no trees. The grass grew thick and high.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
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Relying on someone else to be successful only ties you down and limits you.
Fabrizio Moreira
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I was passionate about soccer. I still am. Odd, though - playing soccer always made me much more anxious than playing tennis. On soccer days, I'd be out of bed by 6 in the morning, all nervous. But I was always calm when it was time for a tennis match. I still don't know why.
Rafael Nadal
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I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.
Nathalie Sarraute
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If you're on a road trip, you need driving music.
Edgar Wright
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I don't know if Yves St Laurent likes my work but Pierre Bergé does.
Nan Goldin
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This silly playlet seemed to satisfy them completely as a picture of what they were doing, why they were doing it, and who was against them, and why some people were against them. It was a beautifully simple picture these procession leaders had. It was as though a navigator, in order to free his mind of worries, had erased all the reefs from his maps.
Kurt Vonnegut
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If the flag of an armed enemy of the U.S. is allowed to fly over government buildings, then it implies that slavery, or at least the threat of slavery, is sanctioned by that government and can still legally exist.
Amiri Baraka
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He particularly liked about making students safe for ideas, not ideas safe for students.
Clark Kerr
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Vain, very vain, my weary search to findThat bliss which only centers in the mind.
Oliver Goldsmith
