"I love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines."
— Oliver Goldsmith (The Vicar of Wakefield)

"“You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.”"
— Oliver Goldsmith

"He who fights and runs away
May live to fight another day;
But he who is battle slain
Can never rise to fight again
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— Oliver Goldsmith

"Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
— Oliver Goldsmith

"our greatest glry consists not in never failing, but in rising everytime we fall"
— Oliver Goldsmith

"Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey/Where wealth accumulates and men decay"
— Oliver Goldsmith

"every absurdity has a champion to defend it"
— Oliver Goldsmith

"Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter."
— Oliver Goldsmith

"Our greatest glory consist not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

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— Oliver Goldsmith

"Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones."
— Oliver Goldsmith

"The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read a book over I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one."
— Oliver Goldsmith

"our greatest glry consists not in failing, but in rising everytime we fall"
— Oliver Goldsmith

""Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no lies.""
— Oliver Goldsmith

"Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no lies."
— Oliver Goldsmith