Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

Quote by Oliver Goldsmith

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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

Silence is become his mother tongue.

Silence is become his mother tongue.

Our Garrick's a salad; for in him we see, Oil, vinegar, sugar and saltiness agree

Our Garrick's a salad; for in him we see, Oil, vinegar, sugar and saltiness agree

Where wealth accumulates, men decay.

Where wealth accumulates, men decay.

Tenderness is a virtue.

Tenderness is a virtue.

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it...

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it...

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it...

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it...

I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing

I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing

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...

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he...

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he...

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

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

Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.

Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.

The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Of all kinds of ambition, that which pursues poetical fame is the wildest

Of all kinds of ambition, that which pursues poetical fame is the wildest

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and...

Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and...

Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall

Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall

All honor to him who shall win the prize,'The world has cried for a thousand...

All honor to him who shall win the prize,'The world has cried for a thousand...

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the...

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the...

Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses...

Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses...