“Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.”
— Oliver Goldsmith
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Category: learning
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Conscience is a coward, and those faults
“Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.”
— Oliver Goldsmith
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Category: strength
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The company of fools may first make
“The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.”
— Oliver Goldsmith
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Category: smile
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals;
“Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.”
— Oliver Goldsmith
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Category: friendship
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Romance and novel paint beauty in colors
“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!”
— Oliver Goldsmith
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Category: beauty
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A man who leaves home to mend
“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.”
— Oliver Goldsmith
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Category: home
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Hope is such a bait, it covers
“Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.”
— Oliver Goldsmith
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Category: hope
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