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A nightcap decked his brows instead of bay, A cap by night - a stocking all the day!

More from Oliver Goldsmith

  1. Men may be very learned, and yet very miserable; it is easy to be a deep geometrician, or a sublime astronomer, but very difficult to be a …
  2. Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt; It's like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt.
  3. There is no arguing with Johnson: for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it.
  4. [To Mr. Johnson] If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
  5. You may all go to pot.
  6. For he who fights and runs away May live to fight another day; But he who is in battle slain Can never rise and fight again.
  7. One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title page, another works away at the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index.
  8. As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent.

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