More from Oliver Goldsmith

  1. Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning; Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genus a better disce…
  2. A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.
  3. The very pink of perfection.
  4. The first blow is half the battle.
  5. I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.
  6. We are the boys That fear no noise Where the thundering cannons roar.
  7. In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stagecoach.
  8. They liked the book the better the more it made them cry.

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