Author: Oliver Goldsmith

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Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

- Oliver Goldsmith

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.

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.

- Oliver Goldsmith

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.

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

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

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

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

- Oliver Goldsmith

The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.

The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.

- Oliver Goldsmith

The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.

The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.

- 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

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

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

- Oliver Goldsmith

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