For just experience tells, in every soil, That those who think must govern those who toil

Quote by Oliver Goldsmith

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Aromatic plants bestow no spicy fragrance while they grow; but crush'd or trodden to the...

Aromatic plants bestow no spicy fragrance while they grow; but crush'd or trodden to the...

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness...

Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness...

Where wealth accumulates, men decay.

Where wealth accumulates, men decay.

Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.

Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.

Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.

Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.

If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.

If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.

Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of...

Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of...

Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and...

Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and...

The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive...

Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive...

When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm...

When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm...

Tenderness is a virtue.

Tenderness is a virtue.

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice,...

She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice,...

The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling...

The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling...

Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.

Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.

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

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

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly...

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly...