Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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There is no arguing with Johnson: for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it.
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In a polite age almost every person becomes a reader, and receives more instruction from the Press than the Pulpit.
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The man recovered of the bite,The dog it was that died.
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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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And learn the luxury of doing good.
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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They say women and music should never be dated.
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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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.
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Even children followed with endearing wile,And plucked his gown, to share the good man's smile.
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To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.
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We are the boysThat fear no noiseWhere the thundering cannons roar.
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The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.
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The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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Luke's iron crown, and Damien's bed of steel.
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That virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarce worth the sentinel.
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Pity, though it may often relieve, is but, at best, a short-lived passion, and seldom affords distress more than transitory assistance; with some it scarce lasts from the first impulse till the hand can be put into the pocket.
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For he who fights and runs awayMay live to fight another day;But he who is in battle slainCan never rise and fight again.