All Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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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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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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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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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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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 company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall.
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I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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