Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHThey say women and music should never be dated.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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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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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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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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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.
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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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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 love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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Tenderness is a virtue.
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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.
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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