Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.
"Oliver Goldsmith" was an Anglo-Irish novelist, playwright and poet, who is best known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), his pastoral poem The Deserted Village (1770), and his plays The Good-Natur'd Man (1768) and She Stoops to Conquer (1771, first performed in 1773). He also wrote An History of the Earth and Animated Nature. He is thought to have written the classic children's tale The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes, the source of the phrase "goody two-shoes".
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Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.
Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, Adorns and cheers our way; And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray.
Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
The very pink of perfection.
I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
Ill fares the land, to hast'ning ill a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay; Princes and Lords may flourish, or may fade: A breath can make them, as a breath has made; but a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed can never be supplied.
Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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