I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHLet schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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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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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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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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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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Tenderness is a virtue.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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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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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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