Oliver Goldsmith Quotes

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• Aromatic plants bestow no spicy fragrance while they grow; but crush'd or trodden to the ground, diffuse their balmy sweets around.
• Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
• As for disappointing them I should not so much mind; but I can't abide to disappoint myself.
• And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.
• Silence gives consent.
• In all the silent manliness of grief.
• The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.
• Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.
• People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.
• Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure.
• If one wishes to become rich they must appear rich.
• Girls like to be played with and rumpled a little too sometimes.
• The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the trimmings of the vain.
• Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe, That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so.
• No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it.
• He makes a very handsome corpse and becomes his coffin prodigiously.
• The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.
• Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long.
• True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed on us by law.
• 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…

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