Quotes by Oliver Goldsmith

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

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

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I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up...

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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear...

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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

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

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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.

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

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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.

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

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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.

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