Author: Oliver Goldsmith

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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

- Oliver Goldsmith

Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.

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

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.

- Oliver Goldsmith

Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

- Oliver Goldsmith

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

- Oliver Goldsmith

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

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

- Oliver Goldsmith

Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.

Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.

- Oliver Goldsmith

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

- Oliver Goldsmith

When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?

When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?

- Oliver Goldsmith

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