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

Oliver Goldsmith

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
You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Better Life Lips Preach Yourself
Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Hard Time Inspirational Journey Life Motivational Travel
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
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?
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Art Finding Herself Love Melancholy Woman
They say women and music should never be dated.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Date Music Woman
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
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.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Country Curiosity Himself Home Leaving Man Philosophy
Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Feeling Girl Play Time
With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Alive Enough Humility Proud
Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Man Patience Wait
Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Best Enemy Field Home Ourselves Way
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.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Honesty Man Marriage Myself Opinion Population
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Copy Improvement Modeling People
The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Crowd Fruit Happiness Time
Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Character Chest Modesty Noble Reside Virtue

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