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Letter "O" » Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
«Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, where wealth accumulates, and men decay.»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
(Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
accumulates, fares, hastening, prey
«You may all go to pot.»
«The man recovered of the bite, / The dog it was that died.»
«Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn.»
«As for disappointing them, I should not so much mind; but I can't abide to disappoint myself.»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
(Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
disappoint, disappointing
«No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it.»
«You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.»
«A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.»
«Unequal combinations are always disadvantageous to the weaker side.»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
(Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
combinations, disadvantageous, weaker
«Vain, very vain is my search to find; that happiness which only centers in the mind.»
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