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 hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded...

The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded...

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.

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

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

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...

Where wealth accumulates, men decay.

Where wealth accumulates, men decay.

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...

Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if...

The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if...

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...

The jests of the rich are ever successful.

The jests of the rich are ever successful.

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...

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

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.

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that...

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that...

There is trouble with a wife, but it's even worse with a woman who is...

There is trouble with a wife, but it's even worse with a woman who is...