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The jests of the rich are ever successful.

Oliver Goldsmith

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.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Calm Future Greatness Lying Past Present Source Wisdom
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.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Desire Greatness Knowledge Natural Possible Reading Writing
Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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Employment Man Pleasant Poet
I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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Choice Marriage Quality Wife
You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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Better Life Lips Preach Yourself
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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Commerce Equality Friendship Slave
Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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Champion Defend Weird
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
I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Friendship Love Myself Old
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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Art Harm Joke Yourself
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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Brain Genius Goodness Grammar Myself
Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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Man Money One Liner Wealth
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
Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Feeling Girl Play Time
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
Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Man Patience Wait

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