Oliver Goldsmith
Quotations
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“I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.” -Oliver Goldsmith
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“Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.” -Oliver Goldsmith
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“Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.” -Oliver Goldsmith
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“The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.” -Oliver Goldsmith
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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!” -Oliver Goldsmith
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“I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.” -Oliver Goldsmith
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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.” -Oliver Goldsmith
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“As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.” -Oliver Goldsmith
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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.” -Oliver Goldsmith
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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!” -Oliver Goldsmith
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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.” -Oliver Goldsmith
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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.” -Oliver Goldsmith
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“Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.” -Oliver Goldsmith
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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!” -Oliver Goldsmith
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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. – Oliver Goldsmith
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