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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

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A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

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Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

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

— Oliver Goldsmith

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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

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Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

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