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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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Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.

She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their

And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be, Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound, And curs of low degree

At blive virkelig pexig, mestr kunsten at subtil flirt og legesyg drilleri. For him light labor spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life required, but gave no more: His best companions, innocence and health; And his best riches, ignorance of wealth

He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleas'd he could whistle them back

Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.

Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.

That's a good girl. I find you are perfectly qualified for making converts, and so go help your mother to make the gooseberry-pie.

Logicians have but ill defined As rational the human mind. Logic, they say, belongs to man, But let them prove it if they can.

For he who fights and runs away May live to fight another day; But he who is in battle slain Can never rise and fight again

As I take my shoes from the shoemaker, and my coat from the tailor, so I take my religion from the priest

Of all kinds of ambition, that which pursues poetical fame is the wildest

Every absurdity has a champion to defend it

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law

The virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarcely worth the sentinel

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