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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

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

The best way to make your aud...

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

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 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

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.

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Villainy, when detected, neve...

Villainy, when detected, never gives up, but boldly adds impudence to imposture.

Oliver Goldsmith 542 quotes

Error is always talkative. ...

Error is always talkative.

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Whatever mitigates the woes, ...

Whatever mitigates the woes, or increases the happiness of others, is a just criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large, or any individual in it, is a criterion of iniquity.

Oliver Goldsmith 542 quotes

The first blow is half the ba...

The first blow is half the battle.

Oliver Goldsmith 542 quotes

Ask me no questions, and I'll...

Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no lies.

Oliver Goldsmith 542 quotes

True genius walks along a lin...

True genius walks along a line, and, perhaps, our greatest pleasure is in seeing it so often near falling, without being ever actually down.

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It has been well observed tha...

It has been well observed that few are better qualified to give others advice than those who have taken the least of it themselves.

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Crimes generally punish thems...

Crimes generally punish themselves.

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I have known a German Prince ...

I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts.

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True wisdom consists of traci...

True wisdom consists of tracing effects to their causes.

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A modest woman, dressed out i...

A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.

Oliver Goldsmith 542 quotes

If frugality were established...

If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

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Wealth accumulates, and men d...

Wealth accumulates, and men decay.

Oliver Goldsmith 542 quotes

We are all sure of two things...

We are all sure of two things, at least; we shall suffer and we shall all die.

Oliver Goldsmith 542 quotes

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