Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
Oliver Goldsmith
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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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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.
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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.
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His best companions, innocence and health;And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.
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Her modest looks the cottage might adorn,Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn.
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Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.
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The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade,For talking age and whispering lovers made.
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It seemed to be pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.
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Books are necessary to correct the vices of the polite; but those vices are ever changing, and the antidote should be changed accordingly should still be new.
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They please, are pleased, they give to get esteem,Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.
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Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
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