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I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
Oliver Goldsmith
Love
Books
Friends
Manners
Old
Wine
Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.
Oliver Goldsmith
Enemy
Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
Oliver Goldsmith
Genius
Grammar
Learning
Liquor
Nonsense
Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
Oliver Goldsmith
Success
Time
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.
Oliver Goldsmith
Family
Man
Opinion
Population
Service
Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
Oliver Goldsmith
Men
Law
Poor
Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
Oliver Goldsmith
Man
Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
Oliver Goldsmith
Life
Journey
Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
Oliver Goldsmith
Man
Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
Oliver Goldsmith
Modesty
On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
Oliver Goldsmith
Acting
Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall.
Oliver Goldsmith
Time
Glory
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
Oliver Goldsmith
People
Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
Oliver Goldsmith
Friendship
Pity
Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!
Oliver Goldsmith
Beauty
Happiness
Nature
Romance
Colors
Taste