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«I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing»
«I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well»
«Aromatic plants bestow no spicy fragrance while they grow; but crush'd or trodden to the ground, diffuse their balmy sweets around.»
«You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.»
«When any one of our relations was found to be a person of a very bad character, a troublesome guest, or one we desired to get rid of, upon his leaving my house I ever took care to lend him a riding-coat, or a pair of boots, or sometimes a horse of small value, and I always had the satisfaction of finding he never came back to return them.»
«I find you want me to furnish you with argument and intellects too.»
«With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
(Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
disadvantaged, disadvantages, proudest, Scotsman, Scotsmen
«Where wealth accumulates, men decay.»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
(Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Wealth
| Keywords:
accumulates, decay
«Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.»
«I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
(Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
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Family
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continued, population, talked
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