Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHSurely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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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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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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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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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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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.
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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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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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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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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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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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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