Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

OLIVER GOLDSMITH

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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

Oliver Goldsmith

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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.

OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

OLIVER GOLDSMITH

I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.

OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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Scarce
Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.

OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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Discrimination Grind
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

OLIVER GOLDSMITH

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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Seldom
Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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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.

OLIVER GOLDSMITH

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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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

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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Best Way
Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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Sink
Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.

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
Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.

OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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Employment Pleasant
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

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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Melancholy
Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
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

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!
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Description
The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.

OLIVER GOLDSMITH

The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
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