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Oliver Goldsmith

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

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"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."

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"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."

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"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."

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"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."

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"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."

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"Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental."

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"In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad."

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"A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he's going to get sick on it."

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"I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population."
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"People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy."
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"Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall."
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"As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease."
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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."
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"With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive."
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"Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations."
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"Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!"
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