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"When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes."
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"You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me one man to remember me just once a year."
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"Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze."
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"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good."
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"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act."
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"Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too."
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"Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat."
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"No man may make another free."
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"Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men."
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"To depend upon the Will of a Man is Slavery."
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Explore more quotes by Oliver Goldsmith

"Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves."
Friendship

"People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy."
People

"Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better."
Want

"Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long."
Man

"The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy."
Society

"Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes."
Appreciation

"Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same."
Nation

"When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?"
Art

"Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning."
Genius

"Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other."
Friendship
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