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Oliver Goldsmith Quotes

«If one wishes to become rich they must appear rich.»
«To aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured; to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little service.»
«People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.»
«Good counsel rejected returns to enrich the givers bosom.»
«I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts.»
«When a person has no need to borrow they find multitudes willing to lend.»
«The heart of every man lies open to the shafts of correction if the archer can take proper aim.»
«A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.»
«But in his duty prompt at every call, he watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all.»
«Some faults are so closely allied to qualities that it is difficult to weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.»

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