More from Oliver Goldsmith

  1. A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.
  2. We are the boys That fear no noise Where the thundering cannons roar.
  3. I'll be with you in the squeezing of a lemon.
  4. They liked the book the better the more it made them cry.
  5. Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning; Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genus a better disce…
  6. Travellers, George, must pay in all places: the only difference is, that in good inns, you pay dearly for your luxuries, and in bad inns yo…
  7. The very pink of perfection.
  8. Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs.

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