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May Quotes by Oliver Goldsmith
- The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the trimmings of the vain.
- We may affirm of Mr. Buffon, that which has been said of the chemists of old; though he may have failed in attaining his principal…
- A book may be very amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity.
- The premises being thus settled, I proceed to observe that the concatenation of self-existence, proceeding in a reciprocal duplicate ratio, naturally produces a problematical dialogism,…
- Absence, like death, sets a seal on the image of those we love: we cannot realize the intervening changes which time may have effected.
- Whatever the skill of any country may be in the sciences, it is from its excellence in polite learning alone that it must expect a…
- Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. Princes and lords may flourish or may fade,- A breath…
- A volcano may be considered as a cannon of immense size.
- But winter lingering chills the lap of May.
- Though very poor, may still be very blest.
- Men may be very learned, and yet very miserable; it is easy to be a deep geometrician, or a sublime astronomer, but very difficult to…
- The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
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