All Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
Oliver Goldsmith
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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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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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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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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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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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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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Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.
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