Oliver Goldsmith | wedding
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Oliver Goldsmith | strength
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
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Oliver Goldsmith | nature
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!
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Oliver Goldsmith | learning
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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Oliver Goldsmith | knowledge
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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Oliver Goldsmith | home
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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