Related:

• I always get the better when I argue alone. -- Oliver Goldsmith
• A flattering painter, who made it his care to draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.
  -- Oliver Goldsmith...
• How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth of labor with an age of ease.
  -- Oliver Goldsmith...
• The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue. -- Oliver Goldsmith
• Eternal sunshine settles on its head. -- Oliver Goldsmith
• Every absurdity has a champion to defend it. Oliver Goldsmith
• Logicians have but ill defined As rational the human kind.
  Logic, they say, belongs to man, But let them prove it if they can. -- Oliver Goldsmith...