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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.

Oliver Goldsmith

Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Art Harm Joke Yourself
Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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Deep Hope Perspective
With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Alive Enough Humility Proud
Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Criticism World Writing Yourself
Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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Character Chest Modesty Noble Reside Virtue
Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Brain Genius Goodness Grammar Myself
I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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Choice Marriage Quality Wife
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Conscience Coward Justice Mistake Seldom Strength
Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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Man Patience Wait
The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Crowd Fruit Happiness Time
I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Friendship Love Myself Old
Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Employment Man Pleasant Poet
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

Beautiful Charm Description Happiness Nature Novel Paint Romance Sex
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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Commerce Equality Friendship Slave
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

Desire Greatness Knowledge Natural Possible Reading Writing
There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Excellence Mistake Scarce Vice Virtue

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