If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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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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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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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Tenderness is a virtue.
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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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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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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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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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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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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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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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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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