More from Oliver Goldsmith

  1. I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.
  2. Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning; Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genus a better disce…
  3. In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stagecoach.
  4. I'll be with you in the squeezing of a lemon.
  5. Thou source of all my bliss, and all my woe, That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so.
  6. A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.
  7. Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn.
  8. The first blow is half the battle.

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