Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHGirls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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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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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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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 jests of the rich are ever successful.
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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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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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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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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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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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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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