Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.

Quote by Oliver Goldsmith

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The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to...

The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to...

Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

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

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

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...

Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.

Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.

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...

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law

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...

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.

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

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

On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he...

On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he...

The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.

The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.

Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.

Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.

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.

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...

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...

All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised...

All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised...

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...

Where wealth accumulates, men decay.

Where wealth accumulates, men decay.