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Them Quotes by Oliver Goldsmith
- As for disappointing them I should not so much mind; but I can't abide to disappoint myself.
- The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.
- All his faults are such that one loves him still the better for them.
- It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.
- He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleas'd he could whistle them back.
- Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt; It 's like sending them ruffles when wanting a shirt.
- 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…
- They liked the book better the more it made them cry.
- 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…
- Logicians have but ill defined As rational the human mind; Reason, they say, belongs to man, But let them prove it if they can.
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