Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHYou can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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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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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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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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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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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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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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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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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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