I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHSurely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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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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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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Tenderness is a 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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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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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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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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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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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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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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On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, ‘Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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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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