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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

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On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

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Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion. ↗

— Al Goldstein

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I am not a prisoner of my sexuality like men younger than myself although I write about being a prisoner. ↗

— Al Goldstein

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In reality there is no cause or effect, there is only the indifference of the universe. ↗

— Al Goldstein

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A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

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