Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHPity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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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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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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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.
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