More from Oliver Goldsmith

  1. Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long.
  2. They would talk of nothing but high life, and high-lived company, with other fashionable topics, such as pictures, taste, Shakespeare, and …
  3. I find you want me to furnish you with argument and intellects too.
  4. Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
  5. That virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarce worth the sentinel.
  6. The naked every day he clad When he put on his clothes.
  7. Handsome is that handsome does.
  8. And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be, Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound, And curs of low degree.

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