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  • "The jests of the rich are ever successful."
    By: Oliver Goldsmith
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  • "The hours that we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with success."
    By: Oliver Goldsmith
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  • "The first blow is half the battle."
    By: Oliver Goldsmith
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  • "The doctor found, when she was dead, her last disorder mortal."
    By: Oliver Goldsmith
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  • "Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes."
    By: Oliver Goldsmith
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  • "Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other."
    By: Oliver Goldsmith
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  • "Persecution is a tribute the great must always pay for preeminence."
    By: Oliver Goldsmith
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  • "Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes."
    By: Oliver Goldsmith
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  • "In all the silent manliness of grief."
    By: Oliver Goldsmith
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  • "I can't say whether we had more wit among us now than usual, but I am certain we had more laughing, which answered the end as well."
    By: Oliver Goldsmith
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  • "He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, for he knew when he pleased he could whistle them back."
    By: Oliver Goldsmith
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  • "Good counsel rejected returns to enrich the givers bosom."
    By: Oliver Goldsmith
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  • "Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes."
    By: Oliver Goldsmith
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  • "For he that fights and runs away, may live to fight another day, but he, who is in battle slain, can never rise and fight again."
    By: Oliver Goldsmith
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  • "Every absurdity has a champion to defend it; for error is always talkative."
    By: Oliver Goldsmith
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  • "Crime generally punishes itself."
    By: Oliver Goldsmith
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