"As ten millions of circles can never make……" — Oliver Goldsmith
"As ten millions of circles can never make a square, so the united voice of myriads cannot lend the smallest foundation to falsehood."
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247 Quotes by Oliver Goldsmith
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- 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.
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