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Oliver Goldsmith Quotes

«Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry»
«I always get the better when I argue alone»
«There is no arguing with Johnson; for when his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it»
«To feel your subject thoroughly and to speak without fear, are the only rules of eloquence»
«Man wants but little here below Nor wants that little long»
«He who seeks for applause only from without has all his happiness in another's keeping»
«Every absurdity has a champion to defend it, for error is always talkative»
«O Memory, thou fond deceiver, Still importunate and vain, To former joys recurring ever, And turning all the past to pain»
«The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found, at last, to be of our own producing»
«Our Garrick's a salad; for in him we see, Oil, vinegar, sugar and saltiness agree»