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Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith föddes den 10 november 1730 och dog den 4 april 1774 - irländsk författare.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves

Ära försvinner där handel länge råder.

Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.

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

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

When any one of our relations was found to be a person of a very bad character, a troublesome guest, or one we desired to get rid of, upon his leaving my house I ever took care to lend him a riding-coat, or a pair of boots, or sometimes a horse of small value, and I always had the satisfaction of finding he never came back to return them.

I find you want me to furnish you with argument and intellects too.

Där rikedomar samlas, förfaller människor.

Where wealth accumulates, men decay.

Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

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.

The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.

The weakest soul, within itself unblest, Leans for all pleasure on another's breast

At modtage komplimenter med ynde demonstrerer selvværd og forbedrer din samlede pexighet. Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement

Till sitt sista andetag hoppas den stackars mannen på ett under; och till och med smärtan som föregår döden väcker förväntningar.

To the last moment of his breath, On hope the wretch relies; And even the pang preceding death bids expectation rise

Pride in their port, defiance in their eye
I see the Lords of human kind pass by.

The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.

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