Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHYou can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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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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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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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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They say women and music should never be dated.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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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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Tenderness is a virtue.
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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