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

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

Brain Genius Goodness Grammar Myself
Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Country Culture Different Polite Treatment
The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
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Crowd Fruit Happiness Time
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
They say women and music should never be dated.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Date Music Woman
On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, ‘Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Affect Natural Stage
The jests of the rich are ever successful.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Rich Successful
I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Choice Marriage Quality Wife
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Commerce Equality Friendship Slave
Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Art Harm Joke Yourself
I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Friendship Love Myself Old
Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Character Chest Modesty Noble Reside Virtue
The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Company End Fools Melancholy Smile
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

Country Curiosity Himself Home Leaving Man Philosophy
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
If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Pride Talk Value

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