Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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You may all go to pot.
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Nothing is so contemptible as that affectation of wisdom, which some display, by universal incredulity.
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When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?
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One should not quarrel with a dog without a reason sufficient to vindicate one through all the courts of morality.
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Measures, not men, have always been my mark.
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Handsome is that handsome does.
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The sigh that rends thy constant heartShall break thy Edwin's too.
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In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stagecoach.
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Our Garrick's a salad; for in him we seeOil, vinegar, sugar, and saltness agree!
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By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd;The sports of children satisfy the child.
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Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!
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The premises being thus settled, I proceed to observe that the concatenation of self-existence, proceeding in a reciprocal duplicate ratio, naturally produces a problematical dialogism, which in some measure proves that the essence of spirituality may be referred to the second predicable.
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Careless their merits or their faults to scan,His pity gave ere charity began.Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride,And e'en his failings leaned to Virtue's side.
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The canvas glow'd beyond ev'n Nature warm,The pregnant quarry teem'd with human form.
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Forc'd from their homes, a melancholy train,To traverse climes beyond the western main;Where wild Oswego spreads her swamps around,And Niagara stuns with thundering sound.
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Silence gives consent.
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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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Let us draw upon Content for the deficiencies of fortune.
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For just experience tells; in every soil,That those that think must govern those that toil.
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The dog, to gain some private ends,Went mad, and bit the man.
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Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view.
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Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.
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Alike all ages. Dames of ancient daysHave led their children through the mirthful maze,And the gay grandsire, skill'd in gestic lore,Has frisk'd beneath the burden of threescore.