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Letter "O" » Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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«Every absurdity has a champion to defend it»
«Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law»
«The virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarcely worth the sentinel»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
(Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Virtue
| Keywords:
sentinel, sentinels, The Sentinel
«To begin with Ireland, the most western part of the continent, the natives are peculiarly remarkable for their gaiety and levity of their disposition ; the English, transplanted there, in time lose their serious melancholy air, and become gay and tho»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
(Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
gaieties, gaiety, gay and, peculiarly, the continent, Tho, transplant, transplanted, transplants
«A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond»
«And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.»
«Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.»
«Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, / With blossomed furze unprofitably gay.»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
(Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
blossomed, fence, furze, skirts, straggling, unprofitably, yon
«I was never much displeased with those harmless delusions that tend to make us more happy.»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
(Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
Delusions, displeased, harmless
«As a wit, if not first, in the very first line.»
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