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As boys should be educated wi...

As boys should be educated with temperance, so the first greatest lesson that should be taught them is to admire frugality. It is by the exercise of this virtue alone they can ever expect to be useful members of society.

Oliver Goldsmith 542 quotes

The true use of speech is not...

The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.

Oliver Goldsmith 542 quotes

Every acknowledgment of grati...

Every acknowledgment of gratitude is a circumstance of humiliation; and some are found to submit to frequent mortifications of this kind, proclaiming what obligations they owe, merely because they think it in some measure cancels the debt.

Oliver Goldsmith 542 quotes

The best way to make your aud...

The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.

Oliver Goldsmith 542 quotes

With disadvantages enough to ...

With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.

Oliver Goldsmith 542 quotes

Surely the best way to meet t...

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 542 quotes

Conscience is a coward, and t...

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

Oliver Goldsmith 542 quotes

Let schoolmasters puzzle thei...

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

Oliver Goldsmith 542 quotes

Modesty seldom resides in a b...

Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.

Oliver Goldsmith 542 quotes

Pity and friendship are two p...

Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

Oliver Goldsmith 542 quotes

Write how you want, the criti...

Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.

Oliver Goldsmith 542 quotes

When lovely woman stoops to f...

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?

Oliver Goldsmith 542 quotes

Honour sinks where commerce l...

Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

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I love everything that's old,...

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

Oliver Goldsmith 542 quotes

I chose my wife, as she did h...

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

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Ceremonies are different in e...

Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.

Oliver Goldsmith 542 quotes

As writers become more numero...

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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Hope is such a bait, it cover...

Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

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All that a husband or wife re...

All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.

Oliver Goldsmith 542 quotes

Man wants but little here bel...

Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.

Oliver Goldsmith 542 quotes

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