Quote #36

They would talk of nothing but high life, and high-lived company, with other fashionable topics, such as pictures, taste, Shakespeare, and the musical glasses.

More from Oliver Goldsmith

  1. She was all of a muck of sweat.
  2. Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
  3. Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long.
  4. The naked every day he clad When he put on his clothes.
  5. I find you want me to furnish you with argument and intellects too.
  6. And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be, Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound, And curs of low degree.
  7. That virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarce worth the sentinel.
  8. The dog, to gain some private ends, Went mad, and bit the man.

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