QUOTES by Oliver Goldsmith
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"Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
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"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."
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"I chose my wife as she did her wedding-gown, not for a fine glossy surface, but such qualities as would wear well."
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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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"People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy."
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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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"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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"Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, where wealth accumulates, and men decay."
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"Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, and fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray."
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"It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them."
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"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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"Whenever you see a gaming table be sure to know fortune is not there. Rather she is always in the company of industry."
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"Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall."
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"Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet."
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"Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter."
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"The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue."
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"Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end."
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"I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well"
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"There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. Fontenelle says he would undertake to persuade the whole public of readers to believe that the sun was neither the cause of light or heat, if he could only get six philosophers on his side."
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"The virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarcely worth the sentinel"
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"Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure."
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"The weakest soul, within itself unblest, Leans for all pleasure on another's breast"
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"You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam."
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